As the internet continues to expand opportunities to educate you, your employees and clients in mastering a wide range of skills and competencies, the Great Lakes Graphics Association continues to explore how the GLGA Education Foundation can assist its members and the industry in training. Please take approximately one minute to complete the survey to help the Association understand where we can best serve member companies and the industry with their training needs.

The August 25 ruling will make it more difficult for employers to respond to demands for recognition from unions claiming to have majority support from the employees at issue. Read more by GLGA member Ogletree Deakins.

Related: NLRB paves way for workers to unionize without formal elections

In a year that continues to surprise, June 2023 printing shipments came in at $7.38 billion, up from May’s $7.26 billion. Read more in this data analysis on WhatTheyThink.com.

From a baseball-bat shaped bottle to surprise graphics on frozen yogurt, here are four packaging designs that helped us enjoy summer. Read and see more on PackagingDigest.com.

This WatchBlog post looks at our new work about USPS’s Strategic Plan —what are the changes and how might they fix these financial woes? Read more by the UU.S. Government Accountability Office.

The Print & Graphic Scholarship Foundation is conducting a survey about internships at printers and packaging companies. The goal of the survey to find out what types of internship programs companies are using (if at all) and measuring their effectiveness.

Jeff White, PGSF's Director of Development, contacted GLGA to send a personal invitation to our members to participate in the survey. Please click here to access the survey questionnaire. The results are expected be published sometime in October 2023. For more information, contact Jeff at jeff.white@pgsf.org.

Making decisions that enable your business to take advantage of both reactive and proactive opportunities is a key ingredient to becoming agile and built for speed. Read more by Mike Philie of The Philie Group.

In this week's Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson of the Sales Vault discusses The Cold Non-Sales Call. Read and see more.

Editor's note: Bill is one of the presenters of GLGA's popular monthly Short Attention Span webinars - FREE for GLGA members.

Please join GLGA for our next Women in Print networking lunch, which will be on Thursday, October 5, 2023, at Harper College in Palatine. IL. Let’s collaborate and celebrate the contributions of women in the printing industry.

Socialize with other like-minded Women in Print, and learn about Harper College and their print department. We’ll be announcing our featured speaker soon. Try your hand at our new Inspirational Women trivia contest – you could win a prize!

Burton & Mayer, a family-owned printing company in Menomonee Falls, WI, has called Milwaukee home since 1938. Spencer Tracy of Fox6 WITI gets a look at what goes into each of their unique products. Read and see more.

Posted on their website by Kingery Printing, Effingham, IL:

Kingery Printing offers our customers a unique and extraordinarily useful mail tracking system called Kingery MailTrack. With many USPS delays, you can stay on top of where—and when—your direct mail pieces are in the delivery process. Read more.

Posted on LinkedIn by Seaway Printing, Green Bay, WI:

We're seeing a lot of progress on the new Seaway Printing headquarters! It's exciting to watch this moment in our company's history. Read and see more.

Posted on Facebook by Ewing Printing, Vincennes, IN: