Politics & Government
Franken: Fund Worker-training Offices
The senator used a Fridley company, E.J. Ajax and Sons, as an example.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken (DFL-MN) and Yellow Medicine County Commission Ron Antony (R) co-wrote an opinion article that appears in the Star Tribune.
In it, they argue for continued government funding of one-stop worker-training offices in Minnesota.
A Fridley company has a starring role in their commentary:
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Take Erick Ajax. Erick runs , a metal-stamping company in Fridley with 50 employees.
He and some other manufacturers partnered with Hennepin Technical College and HIRED, a workforce development agency, to start M-POWERED, a program that allows students to pick up basic and advanced manufacturing skills.
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Erick just hired four M-POWERED graduates; overall, 93 percent of the more than 250 M-POWERED graduates to date have gone on to find permanent jobs.
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