Coletti to head Skills corp.Louis J. Coletti, president of the BTEA BTEA Back to Education Allowance (Ireland) BTEA Block Tiny Encryption Algorithm Contractors Association, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Construction Skills 2000 (CS2000), a non-profit corporation that places NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City high school graduates, veterans, women and economically disadvantaged persons in Building & Construction Trades Council union apprentice A person who agrees to work for a specified time in order to learn a trade, craft, or profession in which the employer, traditionally called the master, assents to instruct him or her. programs. Since 2001, Coletti served as co-chair of the Board of Directors, along with Edward J. Malloy, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council. Coletti has served for the last decade as president of the BTEA, the city's largest and most diverse contractor association, representing more than 1,500 construction managers, general and specialty contractors and 25 contractor associations. Since its inception in 2001, CS2000 has placed about 700 public high school graduates and economically disadvantaged adults into union apprenticeship apprenticeship, system of learning a craft or trade from one who is engaged in it and of paying for the instruction by a given number of years of work. The practice was known in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in modern Europe and to some extent programs. Approximately 87% of these individuals are African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. , Hispanic and Asian. Of those placed from 2001-2005, 81% remain actively employed in the industry today. CS2000 was founded by an unprecedented partnership between the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , consisting of affiliated unions representing more than 100,000 working men and women, and the Building Trades Employers' Association. This partnership has continued to flourish and is a model of labor-management cooperation. "I am pleased to serve as the new chairman of the board for Construction Skills 2000, an organization that builds opportunities for people seeking quality construction jobs in New York," said Mr. Coletti. "We are proud that our pre-apprentice training programs open doors to middle-class union jobs, which offer solid benefits and pay on average $22,000 more per year than non-union contractors." In 2005, CS2000 was named a lead provider of services under recommendations of the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor's Commission on Construction Opportunity and received the National 2006 Construction Users Roundtable Workforce Development Award. For additional information on Construction Skills 2000, log on to www.constructionskills.org. |
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