[CPEO-IRF] Ventura Naval Base (CA) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group Aims to Retain Naval Workers' Talent
Even if the fight to spare their Ventura County jobs fails, an effort is
on to keep their skills in the local labor pool.

By Catherine Saillant
Los Angeles Times
September 4, 2005

While Naval Base Ventura County boosters fight the proposed transfer of
jobs to China Lake, another group is drawing up plans for keeping highly
skilled workers in the area should the restructuring take place. 

Job placement, retraining and other support would be offered to 2,250
base scientists, engineers and other workers under a program just
getting underway by the Workforce Investment Board of Ventura County, a
job development group with federal, state and local job-training
funding. The base supports about 17,000 government and civilian jobs.

After an analysis of the county's labor market, Workforce Investment
will tap colleges, local governments and major businesses to assist in
offering jobs and retraining displaced workers such as teachers, biotech
workers, computer analysts and healthcare workers.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-transition4sep04,1,7186344.story?coll=la-news-politics-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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