WCA News & Events
President’s Message: Lots to Talk About and It’s All Good
2021 continues to be a record year for the WCA! Since our last Pathways newsletter, we have added 20 new EDUcation members, three new MANufacturing members, and two new INDustry Silver Sponsors. I want to thank The Sherwin-Williams Company for their very gracious cash donation of $5,000! WCA will use this money to help increase […]
Columbia High School Bucks the Trend
While high school woodshops are disappearing at an alarming rate nationally, this small school located in rural North Carolina is looking to expand its new woodworking program. It’s said that when the bandsaw leaves the building, it’s never coming back and neither is the woodshop program it was used in. Sadly, this adage has proven […]
WCA partners with Woodworking Network on crucial workforce study
Survey results to be presented at 2021 Executive Briefing Conference. Woodworking Network and the Woodwork Career Alliance of North America (WCA) have joined forces to conduct a ground-breaking survey exploring the woodworking industry’s top workforce development issues. The main objectives of this benchmark study are three-fold: To assess the U.S. and Canadian woodworking industries’ challenge […]