about
Glenn Scott Davis,
Founder & Principal
Founder & Principal
Glenn Scott Davis founded Progressive Workforce Strategies in 2011 to provide services to labor unions, community organizations, employers, policymakers, and workforce development professionals.
Glenn's work is guided by a commitment to job quality, economic stability, and racial and gender equity for workers. For over three decades he has played a key role in advocating for and designing, leading, and scaling several high-impact, high-quality, worker-centered joint labor-management educational and training institutions on both coasts.
Glenn's work is guided by a commitment to job quality, economic stability, and racial and gender equity for workers. For over three decades he has played a key role in advocating for and designing, leading, and scaling several high-impact, high-quality, worker-centered joint labor-management educational and training institutions on both coasts.
Workforce Policy Research & Advocacy
His recent publications on workforce policy, written and edited for One America, include
Recovery for Whom: A Future of Quality Jobs, Economic Stability, and Equity, (author),(2020) and
Creating Quality Jobs for All In Washington's Tech Sector, (co-editor), (2021)
Retail Grocery Workers
In 2020-2021, Glenn provided services to UFCW 3000, the largest private sector union in Washington State in the creation of WeTrain Washington, the first ever grocery worker workforce organization in the nation and co-authored the report.
Investing in Essential Grocery Store Workers:
A Blueprint forWorkforce Development in. the Grocery Retail Industry (co-author)
Immigrant & Refugee Workers
Glenn served as a Policy Specialist in the Seattle Mayor's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, from 2015 to 2020, where he led the City's efforts to expand career pathways for immigrant and refugees and established the Ready to Work program recognized as a model program by the US Department of Labor and the national Skills Coalition. In 2017, his report Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges provided the City Council and Mayor with a policy framework for meeting the workforce needs and expanding city services for immigrant and refugees.
Early Learning/Child Care Providers
Glenn provided strategic planning services to SEIU 925 in 2012-2013 in the creation, funding, and scaling of the highly innovative Imagine Institute which provides cutting edge, high-quality professional development services in the child care and early learning sector.
Healthcare Workers
Glenn served as Director of Nursing Home and Regional Programs for the largest worker education and training organization in the U.S. - the SEIU 1199 Training and Employment Funds. From 1997 to 2010, he led the design and implementation of new innovative Gerontology programs in the NYC nursing home sector in which over 10,000 workers participated contributing to improvements in the quality of care and expanded career pathways. Glenn also led a multi-year effort to create and scale joint labor-management trust funds in Massachusettes, Upstate New York and Long Island, New Jersey, and Maryland.
Long-Term Care Workers
Glenn served as the Executive Director of the 1199 SEIU/Nursing Homes Training Fund in Connecticut from 1988 to 1997. He established and scaled education and training programs and career pathways for nursing home workers through labor-management partnerships - a program that served as a model of adult worker education in the sector and has thrived for 34 years.
Home Care Workers
Glenn co-authored a strategic plan advocating for an adult-learner centered training, support, and career development organization for Washington State's home care sector. This key report, a Blueprint for the Future was instrumental in the creation ands scaling of the SEIU Training Partnership. The proposal was based on an analysis of the failings of the then existing training model and infrastructure in Washington. The report provided a core resource for policy makers and homecare stakeholders.
His recent publications on workforce policy, written and edited for One America, include
Recovery for Whom: A Future of Quality Jobs, Economic Stability, and Equity, (author),(2020) and
Creating Quality Jobs for All In Washington's Tech Sector, (co-editor), (2021)
Retail Grocery Workers
In 2020-2021, Glenn provided services to UFCW 3000, the largest private sector union in Washington State in the creation of WeTrain Washington, the first ever grocery worker workforce organization in the nation and co-authored the report.
Investing in Essential Grocery Store Workers:
A Blueprint forWorkforce Development in. the Grocery Retail Industry (co-author)
Immigrant & Refugee Workers
Glenn served as a Policy Specialist in the Seattle Mayor's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, from 2015 to 2020, where he led the City's efforts to expand career pathways for immigrant and refugees and established the Ready to Work program recognized as a model program by the US Department of Labor and the national Skills Coalition. In 2017, his report Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges provided the City Council and Mayor with a policy framework for meeting the workforce needs and expanding city services for immigrant and refugees.
Early Learning/Child Care Providers
Glenn provided strategic planning services to SEIU 925 in 2012-2013 in the creation, funding, and scaling of the highly innovative Imagine Institute which provides cutting edge, high-quality professional development services in the child care and early learning sector.
Healthcare Workers
Glenn served as Director of Nursing Home and Regional Programs for the largest worker education and training organization in the U.S. - the SEIU 1199 Training and Employment Funds. From 1997 to 2010, he led the design and implementation of new innovative Gerontology programs in the NYC nursing home sector in which over 10,000 workers participated contributing to improvements in the quality of care and expanded career pathways. Glenn also led a multi-year effort to create and scale joint labor-management trust funds in Massachusettes, Upstate New York and Long Island, New Jersey, and Maryland.
Long-Term Care Workers
Glenn served as the Executive Director of the 1199 SEIU/Nursing Homes Training Fund in Connecticut from 1988 to 1997. He established and scaled education and training programs and career pathways for nursing home workers through labor-management partnerships - a program that served as a model of adult worker education in the sector and has thrived for 34 years.
Home Care Workers
Glenn co-authored a strategic plan advocating for an adult-learner centered training, support, and career development organization for Washington State's home care sector. This key report, a Blueprint for the Future was instrumental in the creation ands scaling of the SEIU Training Partnership. The proposal was based on an analysis of the failings of the then existing training model and infrastructure in Washington. The report provided a core resource for policy makers and homecare stakeholders.
Glenn currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Imagine Institute and WeTrain Washington.
He graduated with a Masters Degree in Social Science from Wesleyan University in 1992 and was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University in the Institute for Policy Studies, where his post-graduate work focused on issues of trusteeship, governance and organizational failure in non-profit organizations. Prior to launching his career in workforce development in 1988, Glenn worked as a union organizer, machinist and retail manager.
He graduated with a Masters Degree in Social Science from Wesleyan University in 1992 and was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University in the Institute for Policy Studies, where his post-graduate work focused on issues of trusteeship, governance and organizational failure in non-profit organizations. Prior to launching his career in workforce development in 1988, Glenn worked as a union organizer, machinist and retail manager.
Presenting the findings and recommendations of the Breaking Barriers Report to
Seattle City Council on building career pathways for immigrant ands refugee workers
Seattle City Council on building career pathways for immigrant ands refugee workers