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NECA - Ohio/Michigan Chapter
727 Lime City Rd., Suite 100
Rossford Ohio 43460

1-866-ASK-NECA
1-866-275-6322

 

The Union Difference is
Training and Apprenticeship

Union-signatory electrical contractors provide the BEST WORKFORCE because they invest in joint labor management training programs …

Training and apprenticeship programs are the backbone of the unionized construction industry and the traditional method of training union construction workers. Union training programs are administered by Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committees – JATCs – that are maintained equally by the National Electrical Contractors Association and the I.B.E.W.

Because the construction industry relies heavily on skilled craftsmanship, its apprenticeship and training programs must be state-of-the-art. Research and statistics show that our training programs significantly outperform their nonunion counterparts in enrollment levels and graduation rates (especially among minorities and women), and – importantly – overall curriculum and training facility quality. The U.S. Department of Labor also found that union programs have enrolled 72 percent of construction apprentices since 1989, and have enrolled almost three times as many minorities and over four times as many women, as non-union programs.  


Toledo Electrical J.A.T.C.
The Toledo Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (J.A.T.C.) educates workers through diversified onthe- job training supervised by qualified journeypersons and related technical classroom instruction. The Toledo Electrical J.A.T.C. is administered by I.B.E.W. Local 8 and the Ohio/ Michigan Chapter NECA, and its programs are taught at a stateof- the-art facility in Rossford, Ohio.

The J.A.T.C. has over 200 apprentices enrolled in our 3 programs and takes in about 70 new apprentices each year.

The program spends $2 million each year to train our apprentices and for continuing education for our 1,400 journeymen.

In 2007, our programs as a whole provided 40,000 hours of classroom education time for the apprentices.

Ninety-percent (90%) of the apprentices who start in our programs graduate.

Nationally, Unions and Signatory Contractors:

  • Invest $300 million annually in training
  • Train 180,000 apprentices
  • Upgrade 500,000 skilled workers
  • Operate 1,000 state-of-the-art training facilities

The Toledo Electrical J.A.T.C. conducts three Apprenticeship Training Programs:
  • Inside/Commercial Electrical Wiring Program
  • Residential Training Program
  • Teledata Communications Program

Union journeymen electricians and technicians are strongly encouraged to partake in additional programs for upgrade training to keep their skills on the cutting edge of technology and they participate in 15,000 hours of training each year.


Non-union apprentice training does not measure up!

Not all forms of training are the same. A study by the Building and Construction Trades Department, entitled “A Preliminary Report on Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Apprenticeship Training: Flawed and Failing Initiatives,” found that union apprenticeship programs enroll and graduate the majority of construction apprentices, including the majority of female and minority apprentices, while non-union ABC construction training programs graduate relatively few of their enrollees.

Among the findings for non-union Ohio ABC chapters:

  • Of the apprentices who registered between 1995 and 1999 in Central Ohio ABC training programs, only 24% completed their program by 2004, while 70% dropped out or were terminated.
  • Of the apprentices who registered between 1995 and 1999 in Northern Ohio ABC training programs, only 57% completed their program by 2004, while 43% dropped out or were terminated.
  • Of the apprentices who registered between 1995 and 1999 in Ohio Valley ABC training programs, only 30% completed their program by 2004, while 35% dropped out or were terminated.