CNBC: College or $70,000 a year? Aviation industry scrambles for mechanics as retirements loom

[matt819]

5. Now here's the question. Who provides the training

If you argue that schools are simply training ground to create workers, then you would support the notion the high schools should train students for jobs that are in their communities.

I would suggest that schools are there to teach their students how to read, write, do math, think, and use computers. Better schools can do more and provide better programs, but these are the basic skills that every school should address.

If airlines and aircraft makers believe there is that larger need for aircraft mechanics, then they should develop programs that will provide them with competent personnel over the long run. They should treat their employees as if they are assets and not cost centers. They shouldn’t foist these training programs and the cost associated with him to public schools. In the same way that Amazon and Walmart should pay their employees sufficient money so that they don’t have to get food stamps or other social services that cost the government money, So should these sorts of companies hire, train, and pay well the employees at the forecast needing over the next 10 years or more.

In some respects, this would be a return to the “good old days“ where companies treated their employees reasonably well and in return, employees were loyal and could expect a career And not simply a minimum wage paycheck.

I think the chance of these things happening is pretty close to zero.