Skilled Building Trades Hit Home Runs at Busch and PNC Stadiums
Iowa builder James A. Sattler, chairman of the Board of the Home Builders Institute (HBI), the workforce development arm of NAHB, threw the first pitch to St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Mike Lincoln in pre-game ceremonies celebrating Sept. 18 as Skilled Trades Day at Busch Stadium.
Brett Hardesty, president of the Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis, also participated in the in-field activities, accompanied by Emily Stover DeRocco, the assistant secretary for the Employment and Training Administration.
Patrick Sullivan, the executive director of the St. Louis association, helped coordinate the event, which included a tent in the parking lot filled with educational materials on careers in the residential construction industry.
Following a ceremony with the Pirates on Labor Day at Pittsburgh’s PNC park, this was the second Major League baseball game this month to recognize “Skills to Build America’s Future,” an outreach effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor to educate young people and workers in transition on the career opportunities in the skilled trades. NAHB is a principal partner in this initiative, along with the Construction Industry Round Table and the National Heavy & Highway Alliance and its seven international unions.