Mayor Wheeler Launches “American Rescue Plan” Pandemic Recovery Employment Program to Support Portland’s Economic Recovery Portland’s “American Rescue Plan” pandemic recovery employment response kicks off two years of support for [...]

Driving Diversity is a unique training program that’s creating new pathways for people of color and women into trucking careers. Partnering with Interstate Trucking Academy and the Portland Haulers Association, [...]

The State of Oregon and the Portland Metro region are national leaders in adopting and supporting climate change policies and initiatives and a key strategy component is the electrification of [...]

Chip Shields, a former Oregon state senator, saw that truck driving jobs are among the fastest growing middle-income jobs, and yet people of color and women weren’t getting into these [...]

DECEMBER 16TH, 2021 Worksystems is proud to be part of the "Here for Portland, Downtown" campaign, an effort from the Portland Action Tables to help revitalize the downtown area. This [...]

Worksystems is proud to be part of the "Here for Portland, Downtown" campaign, an effort from the Portland Action Tables to help revitalize the downtown area. This initiative provides support [...]

Worksystems is pleased to release the 2021 Self-Sufficiency Standard, a measure of how much income a family of a certain composition in a given place in Oregon must earn to meet their basic needs without [...]

The Columbia Willamette Workforce Collaborative - comprised of the 3 workforce board in our region including Worksystems, Workforce Southwest Washington and Clackamas Workforce Partnership - is excited to announce the release of the [...]

That was the takeaway from one of the livelier sessions at the three-day convention of the Oregon Building Trades Council held in September. The session featured a "Safe From Hate" panel that [...]