Lincoln Electric's Welding Team Takes AWS Championship: What a Shop Floor Victory Actually Means for Hiring
Lincoln Electric took three medals at the American Welding Society's Skills Competition, with their apprentices outscoring crews from Miller, ESAB, and regional vocational programs. Here's why plant managers should care about a welding competition.
When Lincoln Electric's welding team walked off the stage at the AWS Skills Competition in April with three podium finishes, it wasn't a feel-good corporate moment. It was evidence of a labor pipeline problem that most shops have already hit head-on: the company that trains better gets first dibs on competent electrode pullers.
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