News Releases

CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – WorkForce Central, on behalf of the Pierce County Workforce Development Council, has awarded a contract to Career TEAM to provide services to [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, WA – Pierce County’s WorkSource sites won three significant awards at the Washington state chapter of the International [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, WA – Two WorkSource locations became one in Central Tacoma in December, and in April we celebrated with a grand opening at the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – Thanks to a grant from State Farm and several contributions from the home building industry, WorkForce Central is $21,000 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – After 28 years at WorkForce Central, CEO Linda Nguyen announced today that she will retire at the end of the year. Nguyen [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – In Pierce County, too many young adults are falling through the cracks. And too many adults don’t know it’s [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: PEYTON WESTMAN, 253.254.7845 Washington, D.C. – Last Friday, WorkForce Central CEO Linda Nguyen was reappointed to the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s (USCM) Workforce [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – 2018 saw another year of solid growth for Pierce County’s economy: Our unemployment rate hovered consistently below [...]

CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – Happy New Year! We want to let our customers know that as of Jan. 1, 2019, our provider for Adult services will be changing. We want to assure [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CANDICE RUUD, 253.213.2960 TACOMA, Wash. – Our dream of building a pre-apprenticeship center for all of Pierce County took a leap toward reality this week: [...]