Up skill: Innovative manufacturing 'boot camp' sees high demand

A public-private partnership seeks struggling workers for a program created to fill some of the region’s many open manufacturing positions.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. October 9, 2020
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Brian Hartz. Tabitha Ramos, left, and Ashley Espy display some of the products they made during the two-week AmSkills Manufacturing Boot Camp at Lealman Exchange in Lealman.
Brian Hartz. Tabitha Ramos, left, and Ashley Espy display some of the products they made during the two-week AmSkills Manufacturing Boot Camp at Lealman Exchange in Lealman.
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Tabitha Ramos could be the face, the embodiment, of the toll the COVID-19 economic downturn has taken on tourism and hospitality workers in the Tampa Bay region. 

 

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