The Biden administration has a new national training curriculum for battery manufacturing workers as part of an initiative to ensure the country has enough skilled workers to deliver the federal government’s infrastructure and green energy investments.
Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su made the announcement Tuesday alongside Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and United Autoworkers Workers President Shawn Fain at a UAW local in Lansing, Mich.
The standards, which will be administered as part of the US Labor Department’s registered apprenticeship program, would outline a curriculum that employers, unions, and other providers could use to train workers in battery manufacturing—a field expected ...
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