Rothschild - Students from across northcentral Wisconsin gathered in Rothschild on Wednesday for a job fair centered around trades union jobs. The NorthEast Wisconsin Building and Construction Trades Council hosted the annual fair.Ted Gumieny, business development liaison of the NorthEast Wisconsin Building and Construction Trades Council, spoke to Newswatch 12 about the overall goal of the job fair.
"Our goal of the event is to get young people in the union building trades and see what the opportunities have to offer. These are great wage-sustaining careers with excellent benefits."
Gumieny says that having local schools on board with the event is crucial to getting young adults interested in the trades....
Ken Notes: The trades are great jobs and we need to rethink our school to work system in our high schools. We prepare our students for college but are willing to dump the rest into the workforce without the skills they need or the readiness to obtain them.
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