Post by ClockyPost by Trevor WilsonPost by XenoPost by Nomen Nesciobut where are they going to live, with the housing crisis
put a bunk bed in the workshop?
Nothing new here. The mining industry is already importing motor
mechanics from OS, specifially China, for work in the mining
industry. China has been sending *tradesmen* abroad for yonks to work
on belt and road projects and now, with some Australian mining
companies *owned* by Chinese, they are being brought in by the
hundreds to work on these remote projects. Because they are remote,
the average Aussie never sees them.
I have been saying for some time now that current motor mechanics in
this country need to retrained, reskilled and *licenced* in hybrid,
PHEV and BEV vehicles because of the high voltages (200V - 800V
AC/DC) involved. We have enough *fake* motor mechanics (hello
Darren!) as it is, fakes who pretend they are trained and qualified,
fakes who claim skills and qualifications they do not possess.
Australia needs to make trades attractive to potential apprentices as
well as providing broader and better training along with *licencing*
to keep the shonks out.
**Agreed. Modern cars have been getting more and more complex,
requiring far higher levels of skill and knowledge of mechanics. My
own mechanic tells me that there is a huge shortage of decent
mechanics. He lost one of his guys and has had a hard time finding a
quality replacement.
Yep, but until backwards states like Victoria where pig-ignorant
incompetent and unqualified shonks who can't even use a diagnostic scan
tool to diagnose a simple fault (yes you Noddy) to operate there is
little chance of improving the situation there.
There was a reason people like Darren couldn't enter into an
apprenticeship and it's quite simple - they didn't meet the *entry
level* into the trades. Don't meet that entry level, then there's no
guarantee of completing and passing the relevant trade subjects. But I
do love how Darren claimed to have had an AME apprenticeship without
ever realising that such apprenticeships are at technician (Cert IV)
level and had a commensurately higher entry level - year 10. He didn't
even realise that an AME apprenticeship required 1280 hours over 4 years
at TAFE rather than the standard 960 hours over 3 years of a standard
trade apprenticeship. I laughed when he said he completed all his AME
trade school work in three (3) years - not possible with the lock step
system running at RMIT in that era.
Post by ClockyOther states are following WA and NSW's lead and licensing mechanics.
About time. That is mostly due to the feds overriding control of trade
training and qualifications no doubt.
Post by ClockyAnother issue is that the mechanical trade is also becoming a highly
skilled multi-faceted one but the reward just isn't there. So there is
little incentive for mechanics to enter the trade or to stay in it once
they are.
50% of motor mechanic apprentices in Victoria don't complete their time.
According to VRQA, in apprenticeships more generally, a third do not
complete as at 2014. That is unchanged from 2004 and likely unchanged
still even though more money has been poured into trade training.
No, it's getting worse according to this rather current article;
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/tip-of-the-iceberg-insiders-reveal-dark-truth-behind-apprenticeship-crisis/news-story/8f2cd147c52389077e845c9de0af532c#
The latest completion and attrition rates for apprentices and
trainees report released this week by the National Centre for
Vocational Education Research found that individual completion
rates for apprentices and trainees who started training in
2018 decreased to 55.8 per cent, down 0.8 percentage points
compared with those who commenced the year prior.
Post by ClockyEspecially in Victoria where they are competing with noddies that have
no training, no experience, no qualifications and are grossly
incompetent that can charge the same as highly skilled, qualified and
highly competent technicians.
Worse, those unqualified incompetents are like scab labour and undercut
the opportunities for properly trained and qualified mechanics to fight
for better pay deals.
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Xeno
Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)