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U.S. labor secretary praises Phila. trade school program
X post in Socialist-Progressive
By Jane M. Von Bergen, Inquirer Staff Writer
POSTED: May 23, 2014
Maybe it was because painting apprentice Natalie Holzer told U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez that Perez was a natural on the spray-painting training simulator (even though he really wasn't that good), that Holzer was singled out as an example of the message the secretary was trying to send to America.
But probably not.
"We need to do a better job of marketing," Perez told a group of 200 building trades apprentices, contractors, and union officials gathered Wednesday at the Finishing Trades Institute in Northeast Philadelphia - a school run by the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and the contractors that hire union painters, glaziers, and wall-finishers.
Parents, guidance counselors, and teachers need to know that not every young person should be shoved into college, he said, and that "there is a bright future for people who work with their hands."
FULL story at link.