Walmart Trains Own Technicians, Boosts Pay
Update: 2025-12-21
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Walmarts Innovative Solution to Skilled Trades Shortage: Training Store Associates as Maintenance TechniciansWalmart is addressing the skilled trades shortage in the United States by training store associates as maintenance technicians. These workers keep stores running smoothly and are in high demand, with twenty job openings for every new worker in trades like maintenance through 2032. Walmarts program, launched in 2024, offers tuition-free training in Dallas-Fort Worth and has already trained nearly four hundred employees, with plans to train four thousand by 2030. The program has transformed the lives of workers like Liz Cardenas, who now earns $43.50 an hour and has achieved financial stability. Other retailers like Lowes are also joining in with school outreach and ninety-day programs, but experts warn that shortages will linger without more workers.
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