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  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Five Good and Five Bad things about Electrician Certification, and the Ugly Truth.
The Good Things:
  1. Will help raise the professional level of the Trade.

  2. Will help to set a MINIMUM level of competency for someone who wants to call himself or herself a Electrician.

  3. Will require that there are minimum levels of training required.

  4. Increases the value of true tradesmen and women.

  5. Removes the last valid difference between Union and Merit shop Technicians: Training and Certification.
The Bad Things:
  1. The California Apprenticeship Council has made it mandatory for merit shop employers to pay their technicians Prevailing Wages on private work.

  2. It is now required to register your certified employees as "Electrical" workers and that list is available to the public.

  3. It is the intent of the DAS to make 'State Registered Apprenticeship Programs" the only avenue of training allowed.

  4. Discriminates against those individuals who cannot, for some reason, participate in Registered Apprenticeship programs. I.e.Apprenticeship typically requires High School diplomas and an Algebra background.

  5. The statute, AB931 targets only the employees of C-10 Electrical Contractors leaving out a huge number of people doing electrical work and dragging in trades that probably should be left out. It's not really about Public Safety.
The Ugly:

It has been said more than once that this stuff will never happen, but it is. Now. Spend some time and research the proposed regulations, make up your own mind about what is Good and Bad in Electrician Certification. Then get involved to support what you like and oppose what you don't. FLAC exists to try to make sense of a potentially good thing and force compromise or change the things that are bad. 		 
     
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