Sweden: SEKO union joins National Employment Agency and five telecoms to set up technician training for young jobseekers

A crying need.  The telecom industry has been growing a lot in the past few years, becoming an extremely dynamic sector and playing a major part in the country’s economic development.  Therefore, its growth should not be prevented by a shortage in skilled workers.  Yet, the situation is critical: in the next 5 years, about 25,000 telecom technicians are going to retire and, last year, when snow and winds paralyzed phone traffic and data exchanges, the sector already had to call on retired and foreign technicians to help bring the net back.