Wondering what will happen to the Electrician Certification Program? It has become an annual event! Postponed or not this year? What will happen? Who's enforcing it? How will they enforce it?
32,000+ applied 22,000+ took the test, 17,000+ actually passed it, and some of those are limited to Residential, and Alarm Systems. What happens to the ~12,000 who haven't taken the test, or the estimated 30,000 that did not even apply? Are they all going to be apprentices now?
http://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/ElectricalTrade.htm I know some new guys who don't have the hours that are preping to look for other jobs, and a few with language difficulties that may try to get into apprenticeship programs after 10 years of doing this work, or also looking for other work.
For those of us who passed the test, (Some of us years ago) things may still change for us too. One apprentice per journeyman could screw up scheduling large jobs. We could see a high dollar demand for anyone with a card, or find that GC's are doing all the electrical work... Who knows?
