The Power of Partnerships - National Association of Workforce Boards

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The Power of Partnerships - National Association of Workforce Boards
American Job Centers
“Our Job is Your Career.”™
NAWB Forum 2015
The Power of Partnerships:
Ford Motor Company & the Kansas
City & Vicinity Workforce Investment
Board
TONY REINHART
CLYDE MCQUEEN
Ford Motor Company-Kansas City Assembly
Plant
8121 NE US Highway 69, Claycomo, MO 64068
Phone: (816) 459-1201
[email protected]
Full Employment Council
1740 Paseo, Kansas City, MO
64108
Phone: (816) 471-2330
[email protected]
The Full Employment Council, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Program. Auxilliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
All voice telephone numbers may be reached by persons using TTY/TDD equipment via the MO Relay Service at 711.
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American Job Centers
“Our Job is Your Career.”™
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
FULL EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL, INC. (FEC)
The Power of Partnership:
How Ford Motor Company and the Kansas City & Vicinity
Workforce Investment Board Joined Forces to Retain Jobs
and Help Grow the Ford Claycomo Plant to the Largest in
the World
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FULL EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL, INC. SERVICE AREA
FEC services five counties in the
Greater Kansas City region in Missouri:
Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte, and Ray.
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MISSOURI AUTOMOTIVE JOBS ACT
FEC board members, along with a community
coalition of economic development,
community leaders, organized labor, business
associations and the public workforce system,
formed the Ford 2020 Task Force to support
the Missouri Automotive Jobs Act, which
helped to generate up to $225 million to
retain and expand automobile manufacturing
in the state of Missouri.
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TACTIC: COMMUNITY-BASED RECRUITMENT
Ford Motor Company
Kansas City Assembly Plant
Claycomo, MO
2012: 1,100 jobs moved to KY
2013: MO Automotive Jobs Act passed, Ford undertakes a $1.3
billion renovation and builds a new Stamping Facility; insourced manufacture of commercial van from Europe, creating
2,000 new jobs that will be filled by the 1,000 idled workers and
900 new workers.
Full Employment Council works with local Unions and the State
of MO Division of Workforce Development to set up
Unemployment Claim Centers for employees idled in 2012, and
provides Ford with more than 10,000 persons to fill more than
1,000 new jobs.
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President Barack Obama Delivered Remarks at the Ford Stamping Plant
September 20, 2013
(Official White House photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Governor Jay Nixon
Press Conference Announcing Rollout of Ford Transit — April 30, 2014
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Contact Information
Clyde McQueen
Tony Reinhart
President and CEO
Full Employment Council, Inc.
1740 Paseo
Kansas City, MO 64108
Office: 816-691-2256
[email protected]
Director,
Regional Government Affairs
Ford Motor Company
8121 NE US Highway 69
Claycomo, MO 64068
Office: 816-459-1201
[email protected]
The Full Employment Council, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with
disabilities. All voice telephone numbers may be reached by persons using TTY/TDD equipment via the Missouri Relay Service at 711.
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