From the link:

ACT WorkKeys includes twelve workplace skill assessments:

• Applied Mathematics - applying mathematical reasoning to work-related problems
  
• Applied Technology - understanding technical principles as they apply to the workplace
  
• Business Writing - composing clear, well-developed messages relating to on-the-job situations
  
• Listening - being able to listen to and understand work-related messages
  
• Locating Information - using information from sources such as diagrams, floor plans, tables, forms, graphs, and charts
  
• Workplace Observation - paying attention to details in instructions and demonstrations
  
• Reading for Information - comprehending work-related reading materials such as memos, bulletins, policy manuals, and governmental regulations
  
• Teamwork - choosing behavior that furthers workplace relationships and accomplishes work tasks
  
• Writing - measures the skills individuals use when they write messages that relay workplace information between people
  
• Performance - related to attitudes toward work and the person's tendency to engage in unsafe work behaviors
  
• Talent - includes dependability, assertiveness, and emotional stability
  
• Fit - how interests and values correspond to a particular career

In other words, people are graduating high school functionally illiterate. The claim is being made that they are college-ready but not work-ready, but if you don't have these skills you will flunk out of your first year at college.

What is the real issue here? Because sure as Hell it's not that college skills are competing with work skills for attention at the K-12 stage.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman