SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - On Tuesday several hundred people attended a workforce development summit at Blue Harbor hosted by the Sheboygan County Chamber. The event brought together local business and education leaders to discuss the workers shortage in Sheboygan County and what can be done to address it.
So what happens now? The chamber's Workforce Development Manager Tammy Graf says that will be up to their Business Education Partnership committee.
"We’ll take what everybody says, we’ll tally all of that up, and we might have to reach out for a task force as we divvy up what those priorities are, because obviously, again going back to collaborating and it is a community issue," says Graf.
Graf says past work by this group has led to the development of several new groups to address similar workers situations. "What they’ve done in the past is Coastal Young Professional Network actually was originated out of this group; Inspire Sheboygan County, that actually was with the B-E-P, and also Career Connections came out of that too."
Graf says any new way to address the workers shortage will probably be a program that is run outside of the chamber’s control but they can assist in some way. This work is expected to be a focus for the chamber for at least the next several years.