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Wind - power industry seeks trained workforce

By Marla Dickerson

Wind-power industry seeks trained workforce

"Turn,
Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times
HELP WANTED: President Obama wants to create 5 million green-collar jobs over the next decade.
Interest in green-collar jobs is surging among workers from struggling industries. Colleges like California's Cerro Coso are scrambling to help fill the lack of technical education for the field.
By Marla Dickerson
March 1, 2009
Reporting from California City, Calif. -- One man in the classroom earned more than $100,000 framing tract homes during the building heyday. Another installed pools and piloted a backhoe. Behind him sat a young father who made a good living swinging a hammer in southern Utah.

But that was before construction jobs vanished like a fast-moving dust storm in this blustery high desert. Hard times have brought them to a classroom in rural Kern County to learn a different trade. Tonight's lesson: how to avoid death and dismemberment.

 


    
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