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Are the states without enough electricians making more reasonable licensing standards for becoming an electrician? You can offer $1M for electricians but if th
by notch898a 4y ago
Are the states without enough electricians making more reasonable licensing standards for becoming an electrician? You can offer $1M for electricians but if there's only a certain number of apprentice slots and you have to go through either the union or a few well guarded paths you're still fucked.
- s0rce 4y agoThis is what I was wondering, seems like same issue with doctors, just not enough spots in training programs.
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah that’s the problem the unions have a conflict of interest and aren’t training enough. States like California need to just bypass the unions and train up cohorts of trades people, but our elected representatives are married to the unions so this isn’t likely to happen promptly.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoThe only thing states need to do is include trades as part of high school curriculum. Personal interest and market will handle the rest. People will always go where the jobs are, and they will train themselves up if its something they believe they can do to improve their lives.
- notch898a 4y agoI grew up in a midwest state where they did that exact thing. Half of those people still ended up working at arby's/etc because there were only so many apprentice slots and the sons and daughters of tradesman got them.