Four apprentice electricians start work on Nov. 2 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of a training program set up by the lab and Alameda County.
The deal means apprentices in the county can get some of their required 8,000 hours of on-the-job training at the lab.
Apprentices also take 900 hours of classes at Chabot College in Hayward.
LBL, on the hill above the University of California, Berkeley campus, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Alameda County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee. The training program is sponsored the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Northern California chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association.
Jim Krupnick, Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s chief operating officer, thought up the program with Victor Uno, the business manager of IBEW’s Local 595 union. Uno worked 10 years as an electrician at the lab.
The county program has a training facility in San Leandro, run by Byron Benton.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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