Sheet Metal Workers Train For the Challenge

October 29, 2013

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Chris Caricato, left, training coordinator for the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 206 training center, shows David Alvarez, San Diego mayoral candidate and City Councilmember, and Assemblymember Shirley Weber an artistic side of the sheet metal industry during a tour of the training facility. Photo courtesy of the Mission Times Courier.

A profile of the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 206 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center in San Diego.  San Diego Planning Commissioner Anthony Wagner attests to the value of a quality training program like that available through Local 206.  “The sheet metal workers have made a quiet but significant contribution to our community.  Despite political discourse that is increasingly unfavorable to public sector unions,” Wagner said, “the union association is a good thing for both workers and those who hire them.”
Continue on to to the link to the original story via the Mission Times Courier.