Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Aprntic Eshipjrnyman Training Fund San Diego

The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Fund (the Fund) was organized on July 1, 1976 for the following purposes:To develop comprehensive training programs for journeymen and apprentices, and through training, to upgrade the general quality of workmanship and productivity;To investigate, research, and monitor changing technology, and to anticipate and implement training needs;To provide training for new specialty fields engendered by changing technology, to provide training in the use of new materials and new methods, and to establish skills and proficiency in the Sheet Metal Industry and other related fields to which the skills of journeymen and apprentice sheet metal workers may be adapted;To conduct manpower surveys and to promote training of qualified individuals through established training programs, to alleviate shortages of manpower wherever such shortages are found to exist, to prepare, publish and distribute recruitment materials, and to employ professional consultants to accomplish these purposes;To provide assistance to other local training programs to upgrade training and quality of workmanship, and;To publicize, by appropriate methods, the work that is being done by the Fund.