fisherkj said "The same people complaining here would also complain when an apprentice gets thrown into a situation to fix a furnace and can’t . Then journeyman tech has to come help. That would be the same bill. Only you’d complain that the apprentice couldn’t figure it out and the company would have to eat that time. Instead It’s the duty of the company to send out apprentices trained by a journeyman right off the bat so that generations to come are properly trained. I say your lucky to get just a journeyman to your house. Every company should be sending out and training apprentices. $80 for journeyman. $40 for apprentice (1.5 rate) wether he’s watching and learning or getting his hand dirty. We have the lowest rates in northern and southern America. Companies aren’t making a whole of money in Brandon. The more we undercut business’s the more sloppy work is going to get. Business’s will simply stop recruiting journeyman’s. Tough times out there
Edited by fisherkj, 2020-01-14 13:06:43"
Agree. A trade Is best learned on the job taught by those with experience. And we need to keep those new skilled people coming up through the ranks across many industries. It makes sense that the consumer has to pay for that one way or another.
When I was an apprentice in the UK my labour was invoiced at full shop rate of 45 pounds sterling an hour. At that time I was paid 1 pound 38 pence per hour which was a decent 2 nd year apprentice wage in 1993 ( there was no minimum wage back then).