LOS ANGELES — Training is necessary, but it can be quite costly, especially when you figure in travel, accommodations, and lost work time. Because of this, one union training center here has opened up a creative option to help fund more flexible training for contractors’ union-member employees.
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Joint Journeyman and Apprentice Training Center’s (JJATC’s) Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Training Center introduced a “Training Voucher Program” that supplements its existing curriculum, which many contractors say is already quite good but not specific enough in some areas, such as controls.