EVERETT -- How does a state, or a community like
Snohomish County, ensure it has enough qualified workers to sustain a
growing industry like aerospace?
• You increase the number of engineers being educated locally.
• You devise short and two-year training programs at local community colleges
• And you steer hundreds of skilled paper-mill workers who are losing their jobs toward careers in aerospace
Those
are some of the efforts local educators and workforce trainers
highlighted Wednesday in a meeting with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
"We
want aerospace to be the base; we'll work to protect it, but we want to
grow and diversify from there," said Troy McClelland, executive
director with Economic Alliance Snohomish County.
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