He was my co-worker and my friend, a bright, talented, journeyman construction building technician.
In a building still under construction, technicians wearing hair nets hunch over machines.
Our word is not as well taken as it used to be in the past," said Kelliher, 49, now a building construction technologies technician at Pima Community College in Arizona.
They had been engineers and radar technicians, construction managers and secretaries, businessmen, homemakers and salesmen.
Lab technicians, construction workers, and manufacturers often lack a way to train colleagues and communicate information.
The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, blames the shortage on "a 30-year failure to train apprentices".
The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians has highlighted harassment and bullying of women in the industry.
Award: Apprenticeships and Young Workers Winner: Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians Ucatt and ConstructionSkills, the sector skills council for construction, negotiated an agreement to increase the number of apprenticeships for young people.
The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (Ucatt) formed its first women's network forum in March and highlighted the "harassment and bullying of women workers [that] continues to blight Britain's male-dominated industries".
The decline is most significant in the data that the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects for the nation's hourly work force, which totals 76 million, or 52percentt of all workers, and ranges from managers and professionals to factory and construction workers to technicians, educators and sales people.
