Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


I've been told by a number of electricians and plumbers that the Union
training programs create false expectations in terms of both wage and
real world conditions.

Employers, students, the labor dept, and hopefully the Unions
themselves have been very disappointed with the effectiveness of the
Job Corp to provide proper training or job placement for grads.


You really are an ignorant a**hole, Reggie. In the construction
trades, the purpose of the job corps is to provide unskilled,
undisciplined kids with a few decent life skills and preliminary job
skills so they know the importance of showing up for work on time,
sober, and with an attitude conducive to work. The job corps provides
pre-apprenticeship training, and a bit of a taste of the sort of
skills they'll be learning.

Do you actually know anything about anything, or is your knowledge
base built entirely upon what you google?

Yes, I do have a very large knowledge base, thanks for asking. Why do
you find it necessary to use foul language whenever someone disagrees
with you. I pointed out that employers, students and the labor dept.
are not pleased with the results of the job corp and you go on a rabid
tirade. Are the Unions pleased with the results of the Job Corp?






I don't know, Reggie. I don't "speak" for the unions. On the national
level, several training programs with which I have familiarity have few
problems with the apprentices they get out of the job corps pre-job
programs.

The "labor department" these days is a piece of Bush-admin crap, just
like everything else the Bush Admin has touched, and therefore its
opinions are not relevant.