A jobs lottery designed to create a list of 226 workers to enter Tacoma’s longshore union workforce generated huge interest, but lottery officials aren’t talking about the specifics of the process or its results.
Lottery entrants had just four days to enter the contest from the time the first notice of the lottery appeared in Sunday’s News Tribune until Wednesday midnight, the deadline for entries to be postmarked.
The article and two job ads in The News Tribune’s classified section and on Careerbuilder.com generated hundreds of phone calls from potential lottery entrants wanting to know details of how they should submit their entries.
The group in charge of the lottery process, a joint committee of union officials and waterfront employers, didn’t offer a website or a phone number for job seekers to call.
That resulted in hundreds of calls to those that job seekers thought might answer their questions.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2013/03/22/longshore-lottery-generated-huge-interest-but-employers-remain-mum-on-details/
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