Jobs for Vets

Brig. Gen. Carol Ann Fausone (Ret)

Veteran Advocate

 

Last week, four of the largest U.S. manufacturers announced their plans to start training military veterans for factory jobs. General Electric Co (GE), Alcoa Inc, Boeing Co and Lockheed-Martin Corp said they will all provide financial support to the “Get Skills to Work Coalition,” which will initially train 15,000 veterans to be hired by the four companies.

The program will get its start in January at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio, near a major GE Aviation factory, and be rolled out to nine more U.S. cities over the course of 2013. While the founding four companies already employ a combined 64,000 veterans, there are more jobs out there that need filling. It is estimated that 600,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S have gone unfilled due to lack of skills training and companies being unable to find workers for high-tech, high-speed factories.

Combine the vacant 600,000 manufacturing jobs with the 1,000,000 oil and gas industry workers nearing retirement and you can see why the “Get Skills to Work Coalition” is a program that is headed nowhere but up.

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