A-Ccord is a private company that specializes in training and retraining Utility workers (mainly in the electrical and natural gas utility fields). This particular award of Stimulus bucks is for upgrading the skill set of existing utility workers and possible new hires in "green" energy and conservation.
The grant is for up to 719 trainees, which places the cost at 2700 per pupil. There is no guarantee that this money will create OR save a single job.
What's particularly offensive about this is that the funding for these very specialized schools are lobbied for by Unions, namely, the Utility Workers AFL-CIO. They are applying for millions of dollars in grants all over the U.S. for training programs just like this one.
http://uwua.net/press-releases-2010/us-department-of-labor-awards-uwua-5-million-for-training-programs.html
Why is it that the AFL-CIO has millions to spend on lobbying in Washington, millions for buying TV ads against political opponents, but can't squeeze out one thin dime to fund training for their own members?
The sad fact is, most of this training isn't even for new applicants. It's for current employees to supposedly improve their skill sets.
Most people have to fund their own secondary or continuing education. Union labor considers itself exempt from the status quo.
So now, the unions will not only sock it to you through rising energy prices to support their gilded pensions and benefits packages, but they get to dip into the government trough to support their training, too!
Ain't unions just wonderful?
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