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WANTO Grantees
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT)
Chicago, IL
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT) has received three WANTO grants.
Please click the grant year below to learn more about each project and its outcomes and products.
WANTO 1st Year Grant—Awarded September 1994
WANTO 3rd Year Grant—Awarded September 1996
WANTO 5th Year Grant—Awarded September 1998
WANTO 6th Year Grant—Awarded September 1999
WANTO 1st Year Grant—Awarded September 1994
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT), partnered with organizations from four Midwestern states to provide technical assistance to unions and employers. The partner organizations were:
- Minnesota Women in the Trades (MWIT);
- YWCA of Milwaukee/Nontraditional Employment Training (YWCA/NET);
- Madison Tools for Tomorrow/Employment Options, Inc. (EOI); and
- Hard Hatted Women (HHW) of Cleveland, Ohio.
CWIT designed a technical assistance project to improve the retention of women in nontraditional occupations (NTOs) by employers and unions through:
- Shaping management and leadership goals to enhance the advancement of women in apprenticeship and NTOs;
- Direct education and training for workforce, union staff, members, and apprentices;
- Group and individual support, including career advancement activities for tradeswomen within unions or at job sites; and
- The provision of materials that can be used in ongoing activities and a range of more specific services at the request of employers and unions.
Outcomes
Technical Assistance
CWIT and partners provided direct technical assistance to 125 employers, six unions, six Joint Apprenticeship Committees and 400 women.
Products
Click on the product name to learn more about the product and how to order.
- Manual— Preventing Sexual Harassment in Non-Traditional Occupations: A Training Manual for Tradeswomen, Advocates, Unions and Employers , materials on equitable work sites; fair training assignments; managing diversity in the workplace
- Final Report that documents grant activities
WANTO 3rd Year Grant—Awarded September 1996
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT) partnered with Hard Hatted Women, Minnesota Women in the Trades and Employment Options, Inc. to provide technical assistance in three areas:
- On-site and off-site to contractors and their employers and unions on five megaprojects:
- Chicago, IL—$1.2 billion 800 million school building and renovation project;
- Cleveland, OH—a $250 million football stadium;
- Madison, WI—$88 million University of Wisconsin, Kohl Stadium;
- Minnesota—$100 million county jail and $95 million science museum; and
- Milwaukee, WI—$170 million Wisconsin Center;
- A regional telecommunications network Web site, http://www.womenintrades.org; and
- A "how-to" manual.
WANTO 5th Year Grant—Awarded September 1998
WANTO: Manufacturing Opportunities for Women
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT), in partnership with the Tooling Manufacturing Association (TMA) with its 1600 manufacturing employers, provided technical assistance to manufacturing employers and unions and the training programs that are currently serving them. The project was designed to expand the pool of well-trained women for jobs in manufacturing, e.g., tool and die maker, machinist and metal fabricator.
Chicago Women in the Trades (CWIT) served as a broker to link trained women to the employers and assist the employers in providing the necessary components to advance and retain the women on the job in the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Communities of Southside, Westside, and Southwest Chicago.
Chicago Women in the Trades is a seventeen-year old community-based organization devoted to increasing the number of tradeswomen and creating equitable working conditions for women in non-traditional, blue-collar careers. Chicago Women in Trades is a member of WOW's National Workforce Network.
The grant has been extended to December 2000.
WANTO 6th Year Grant—Awarded September 1999
WANTO: Manufacturing Opportunities for Women
Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT), in partnership with the Tooling Manufacturing Association (TMA) will continue to provide technical assistance to manufacturing employers and unions and the training programs that are currently serving them. With the addition to their WANTO grant, CWIT will work with employers and labor unions to place 15 women in manufacturing internships. This WANTO project was designed to expand the pool of well trained women for jobs in manufacturing, e.g., tool and die maker, machinist and metal fabricator. The starting wages range from $11.00 to $14.00 an hour and often require initial preparatory training and ongoing on-the-job and apprenticeship training..
Scheduled project completion: December 2000.
Project Contact
Julie Kruse, Interim Executive Director
Chicago Women in the Trades
1649 W. Adams, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone (312) 942-1444
Fax (312) 942-0802
E-mail cwit@juno.com
Web Site http://www.womenintrades.org