A Call to Action - More Skilled Labor Needed in our Industry

We recently received this message and letter from Skip Wolfford outlining the need for more adequately skilled labor in the industry as a result of cuts to vocational training programs. If you agree with Skip as I do, please follow his lead and use his letter as a model to write to your own state representative.

Message from Skip:

Mike, I am sending you a copy of a letter that I penned to our governor regarding the coming shortage of adequately skilled labor in our industry and this country in the future. As a spokesman for our industry and as the leader in the education of our industry's personnel; I feel that you can also have a dramatic effect on this issue.

Please, review my letter and check out Mike Rowe's website (www.mikeroweworks.com) and listen to what he says. I just returned from the ABC's EdCon in San Antonio and I heard the same things from many in the industry as a whole.

Although I am happy that our tradesmen are finally going to get paid what they are worth; it concerns me as a whole that this industry is going to find it harder and harder to get adequate help if we, the business owners and leaders, don't get on top of this issue now.

As you know, we have taken the bull by the horns but this is only a small piece of the solution.

Thanks,

Skip Wolfford
President
David M. Wolfford & Son, Inc.
Electrical Contractor
www.wolffordelectric.com

Click here to read the letter to the governor and feel free to use this as a template for your own letter to your state representative.

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