Advocacy Update & Action Request

 

• Our current Call to Action, requesting legislative language in the appropriations process to include a GE delay, generated 1697 legislator connections. Again, thank you for your action and support in this piece of our strategy!
• While these Call to Actions are easy to complete, your GRC needs your advocacy efforts to be of a different form in the next few weeks.

Step 1: Are you connecting with the employers of your graduates? Are you letting them know their workforce may diminish further if the GE regulations are implemented as planned? We are sure you have been doing this, but in case you haven’t, please do so now.

 

Step 2: Ask several employers of your graduates: How many licensed cosmetologists could they hire right now? How many will they need to hire in the next 12 months?

 

Step 3: Gather the specific data and share it with the AACS GRC Chairman Greg Jones by June 30, 2016. The GRC Leadership team may then reach out to you directly. Requesting that you and the employers of your graduates take this "workforce shortage" message directly to Members of Congress in your area, especially if you have a Member of Congress on the Appropriations, HELP and/or the Education & Workforce Committees.