Training

The urgent need for skilled workers has everyone scrambling for solutions.

An active training program improves a company’s ability to recruit new talent and to keep existing talent.

I was honored to spend the day working with a young technician by the name of Oscar Varela.

Wolverine launches a limited-edition 1000 Mile boot to benefit the mikeroweWORKS Foundation and the next generation of skilled workers.

For more and more contractors, manufacturers are helping carry the training load.

The company employs about 415 people, some 200 of which are members of the skilled trades, including plumbers, pipefitters, welders, HVAC-techs, helpers and apprentices.

Some of the solutions to the plumbing problems folks have come up with run the gamut from horrific and dangerous all the way to ingenious, even if they aren’t quite to “code.”

Wilo USA welcomed this year’s group of 8th-grade student campers to its production facility in Thomasville, Ga., as part of the program.

Malco annually donates more than $130,000 of in-kind tools and apparel to skilled trade education programs across the country.

This legislation increases funding for career training for in-demand occupations.