Milwaukee Tool Joins Alliance for America's Skilled Trades
Milwaukee Tool announced it has joined the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades, a national effort bringing together companies committed to strengthening the skilled trades workforce and expanding pathways into rewarding careers.
The company joins the Alliance with a longstanding commitment to the people and organizations building the skilled trades workforce across the United States.
For more than 100 years, the company has built its business around serving the professional trades. Since 2010 alone, Milwaukee Tool has invested in workforce development initiatives supporting skilled trades education, training and career pathways. Based on current and planned investment, that investment is expected to exceed $200 million by 2030.
“Milwaukee Tool has built our business around the skilled trades, and we believe America grows when the trades grow,” said Shane Moll, group president of Milwaukee Tool. “Joining the Alliance gives us another opportunity to build on the work we’ve been doing alongside the organizations that train and support the next generation of skilled tradespeople. We’re proud to bring those relationships, our experience and our continued investment to this effort.”
Milwaukee Tool supports more than 16,000 apprentices annually who are actively enrolled in skilled trades programs, working alongside more than 1,300 training centers and 25 national union and non-union partners across the United States. That work is grounded in longstanding relationships with organizations throughout the skilled trades.
Milwaukee Tool’s commitment to the skilled trades is part of the company’s broader investment in the United States. Over the past decade, Milwaukee Tool has invested more than $2 billion in its U.S. operations and added more than 4,000 American jobs in the past five years. All Milwaukee Tool global innovation originates at the company’s headquarters in Brookfield, Wisconsin, where it leads the development of solutions for professional tradespeople worldwide. Today, Milwaukee Tool employs more than 11,000 people nationwide and operates 34 facilities across the United States, spanning manufacturing, research and development, engineering, distribution, service and corporate operations.
Enter to Win a Prize Package at the T&D World Booth at the International Lineman's Expo
Milwaukee Tool also sponsors T&D World's Lineworker Focus and Faces of the Future departments by sending tool packages to the featured lineworkers.
If you are a lineworker and would like to participate, please send a photo of yourself working out in the field, by your bucket truck or competing at the International Lineman's Rodeo to Amy Fischbach. You can also fill out forms for Faces of the Future (for apprentices) or Lineworker Focus (for journeymen lineworkers).
You can also participate in a drawing at the T&D World booth at the International Lineman's Expo for a Milwaukee Tool prize package worth $1,348.85. Swing by the T&D World booth to get your badge scanned and enter the drawing. The winner will be announced at the Lineman's BBQ, and the prize will be shipped to the winner.
The Milwaukee Tool prize pack includes an assortment of pliers and screwdrivers manufactured in the United States as well as the M18 REDLITHIUM FORGE XC8.0 Battery, the M18 Dual Bay Simultaneous Super Charger and the M18 FUEL 7/16-in. Hex Utility HTIW w/ ONE-KEY Kit.