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The administration wants to ease a shortage of skilled workers by allowing employers and business groups to set standards for apprenticeships, which combine on-the-job training with classroom instruction. Currently, standards are set by the Department of Labor, and most apprenticeships are run by trade unions under federal supervision.
I do not see that as an expansion of government. All I am hoping for is to bring the discussion of apprenticeships into full view. Currently our biggest problem with recruiting are school councilors and parents who both hold archaic views of "blue collar" workers and their work environments. When we manage to bring them into or shops and see first hand the conditions--many of us traded sweat shops for air conditioning, years ago and hear the pay rates and see the level of technology, we can win----but getting them here is a challenge.
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