The Worker Voice Project

ABOUT THE WORKER VOICE PROJECT

The Worker Voice Project started from the basic principle of asking workers’ opinions of their jobs and what they want for the future, while also asking workforce and labor system stakeholders what is working and what they want to see from workforce development systems and our economy.

We started with a set of questions for workers around what they want and need from their jobs, how they feel about the economy, and what federal policies they support. We asked stakeholders across the workforce development and labor ecosystems to think about the state of the field and their vision for the future.

Our research tells us now is the time to advance a broadly defined workforce development and labor system oriented and aligned toward workers’ voice, economic justice principles as defined by stakeholders, and job quality to meet the opportunities of today and the needs of workers and our economy for tomorrow.