” It seems to imply that the union does all the job training, and they are not training additional folks.”
Quite a few unions do the training instead of the companies. In either Illinois or Iowa there is a huge training facility for some union. Pipe fitters? I can’t recall.
You can be the most skilled person on the planet but without that union training cert you won’t work.
To get hired into a UAW plant as a skilled tradesman you must have either a UAW Journeyman’s card or documented 8 years of employment in the trade......