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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, October 21, 2004 ::
Battling a labor drought By Dan Martin, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
There is no shortage of young local men and women interested in the $60,000 to $80,000 that a journeyman carpenter or electrician can make a year. The promise of steady long-term work also has lured a sizable number of skilled workers to Hawaii from the mainland.
The problem is a shortage of local workers with the most basic of qualifications, said Denis Mactagone, training director with the Hawaii Carpenters Union, who says many aspiring carpenters lack the eighth-grade-level reading and math skills needed to navigate through the union's three-year apprentice training program and its requisite exams.
Mactagone said the union has lowered its test requirements four times in the past dozen years to avoid cutting off the supply of freshly minted local carpenters.------------------------------------------- posted 6:52 AM :: reference link ::
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