Career Development may use funds programmatically for many educational and
counseling activities. Some examples of how these programmatic funds may be used
include:
- To help individuals prepare for craft and non-craft training, but not to replace
apprenticeship training (consistent with the bargaining agreement)
- To assist them to progress in the workplace (without funding job-specific training)
- To enhance workers' ability to respond to change, challenge , and opportunity in
the workplace
- To enable them to have more stable and rewarding personal and family lives
- To prepare for long, secure, and meaningful retirement
- To assist victims of shutdowns, layoff, restructuring, economic polices and unfair
trade practices (along with other USW/company efforts and public programs for
dislocated workers)
Within the general umbrella of programmatic funds, these funds may be used for Basic
Skills Enhancement, which may include:
- GED preparation
- Effective reading
- Writing for effect
- Math brush-up
- English as a second language
- Problem solving/critical thinking
- Communications
- Introduction to computers
- Other basic skills upgrading
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