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Workforce
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| Eddie
Clayton, Southern Company
Generation’s Outage Planning Manager,
will be recognized for his efforts to overcome the
southeast region’s workforce shortage. Clayton was
instrumental in forming the Southeast
Manpower Tripartite Alliance (SEMTA), a
group of owners, contractors and labor interests
formed to develop solutions to the gulf coast
region’s workforce gap. The Safety Council is a
member of this group. This has heightened
the awareness that we have a problem." |
Eddie Clayton,
Southern
Company
Generation |
Clayton will be honored on April 3, 2008 as one
of the Top 25 Newsmakers at the McGraw
Hill Construction/ENR 43rd Annual Award
of Excellence Black Tie Gala in New York City.
Under his leadership, SEMTA has developed the
southeast region’s first labor demand projections.
This supply and demand information has been
influential in creating awareness of the skilled
labor shortage and has been used to initiate
actions. In an effort to schedule regional
projects more efficiently, more than 60 utilities
and industrial owners participated in a survey. As
noted in the ENR award announcements, Clayton
said, "I felt it was better to cooperate with
peers, contractors and labor to determine the
magnitude of the problem. |
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The Construction Labor Research Council
used information gathered by SEMTA to
draft its report that reveals that demand for some
crafts will rise more than 40% in the next four
years. SEMTA meets twice a year to discuss ways to
minimize potential labor shortages. Clayton says
SEMTA meetings have attracted up to 250 attendees
and a new labor-demand survey is being planned in
the near future.
The Safety Council congratulates Eddie Clayton
for helping to identify solutions to address this
region’s labor shortages.
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