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The Hawaii Job Corps campus in Waimanalo, due to shut down at month’s end due to funding cuts, was seen on Thursday.
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As a 10-year former vocational instructor at Hawaii Job Corps, I am on one hand sorry to see the program end. However, before it was taken over by a for-profit business, it was run as a nonprofit in partnership with local unions with the qualified graduates entering the apprentice programs.
The new for-profit company got rid of all the union training and replaced them with soft jobs that pay way less without the union benefits. I believe that programs like the Job Corps should never be run as a for-profit business at the expense of the students who already have it tough enough or would not be in the program.
Mark Erwin
Kailua
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