The GMB union together with Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA) have launched an initiative to encourage Humberside’s employers and younger workers into apprenticeships. Unions have been keen to criticise both the government for not taking sufficiently large and well financed steps to provide for training in those areas of the economy with skill shortages and employers for cutting back on training and not investing in training for the future. A report published last year by the Royal Academy of Engineering estimated Britain would need more than a million new engineers and technicians by 2020.
So the move by the GMB union, the third largest union, to work with the Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA) is a significant one in so far as it is using its own initiative and is not relying on the state to undertake provision. The initiative is based upon appealing to young workers to see engineering as a long-term career and appealing to employers to resource the step up to a Level 3 engineering apprenticeship. The initiative was launched at a public event with politicians, em
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