District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund |Helping Today's Healthcare Workers Prepare for Tomorrow's Workplace
District 1199C, an affiliate of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, negotiated the Fund to assist its members and the community in upgrading out of dead-end jobs and keeping pace with increasing technological demands.
The leadership of the District 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund brought to Philadelphia a deep commitment to education as a vehicle for providing healthcare workers with the opportunities to advance into better jobs.
The Training and Upgrading Fund’s Learning Center in Center City, Philadelphia provides basic and job skills training to over 2,000 students per year. About half of the students are union members and half are community residents, including laid-off workers and welfare recipients. The Fund’s Learning Center supports an experienced staff of 60 part-time instructors and 35 full-time staff.
The Training Fund enjoys a national reputation as a model joint labor-management partnership in education