The Floor Covering Leadership Council (FCLC) hosted a Flooring Executive Summit on March 12, 2019 at the Dalton Convention Center. Scott Humphrey, FCLC member, and Kathi Rose, The Blackstone Group, updated the group on the labor shortage challenge, presented the research collected by the Blackstone Group and asked for signed pledges to collaborate on taking the industry to the next step.
After the presentation, the following pledge was read:
“We the undersigned acknowledge that shortages and gaps in the floor covering installation workforce pose serious challenges to the well-being of the floor covering industry as a whole. We hereby pledge ourselves and our organizations to provide the leadership, funds, and/or other significant support required to undertake a long-term initiative that will generate a sufficient and sustainable installation workforce.”
The pledge was signed by the following:
Advanced Adhesive Technologies Greg Wood
AHSG/Commercial One Joe Weber
Amaz Floors Luxia Hong
American OEM
CFI
Divergent Adhesives
Emily Morrow Home Emily Finkell
FCICA
Flooring Success Systems Jim Armstrong
FUSE Alliance
IUPAT
Loba-Wakol
MAPEI
Metroflor
Mohawk Industries
NWFA
Protect-All
QEP
RFMS
Roberts
Tarkett
Wagner Meters
WFCA
WFCA
WFCA
Anyone else who would like to sign the pledge and show their support may do so on the FCLC website. The executive summary and quantitative assessment of the research is available there as well. View the Executive Summit presentation here.
FCLC plans to reach out to those who have signed the pledge and host a meeting in San Antonio at La Cantera Resort & Spa in August in conjunction with CFI’s 2019 Convention and discuss the next steps needed to help resolve the industry shortage.
About FCLC
The FCLC was established in 2015 as a coalition of flooring industry trade associations committed to identifying issue and developing solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges.
Currently, the following associations support the FCLC including: American Floorcovering Alliance, Inc. (AFA), International Certified Flooring Installers Associations Inc. (CFI), Floor Covering Installation Contractors Association (FCICA), North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD), National Institute of Certified Floorcoverings Inspectors (NICFI), National Tile Contractors Association (NTCA), World Floor Covering Association (WFCA).
For more information, visit www.fclcouncil.org.