Junk Plants Vogtle 3&4: Can Only Afford To Hire Crap Skill Labor

You would think they would hire the most expensive and skilled employees. To reduce the over all cost of the plants, it is all back of labor. More stupid republican crap.   

This guy is going to have horrendous capacity factor for the first five years and much rework. I'd like to find out what is the total skill labor rework occurring at the plant. 

“The wages at plant Vogtle are much lower...

AJC: Skilled labor shortages hit Vogtle as Georgia Power reports progress

Posted: 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2018

Georgia Power says completion of the two new nuclear units being built in Waynesboro faces skilled labor shortages, despite the project being ahead of its revised schedule.

A report filed by the company to the Georgia Public Service Commission ahead of Vogtle construction progress hearings next month identified difficulties in meeting craft labor requirements at the plant as one challenge that could hamper efforts to meet its completion forecast of 2021 and 2022.

The report says Bechtel, the nation’s largest construction company recruited last year as project contractor has been facing challenges in providing skilled labor to the plant that employs over 5,000 people.

“Bechtel must attract the necessary labor force to support the project completion goals,” the report read in part.

According to Will Salters, business manager at the Augusta office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the shortage in skilled workforce in a statewide issue, which he attributes in part to an abundance of ongoing construction projects across the state.

He said hiring for Vogtle is especially difficult as other companies are providing better pay and incentives, luring some skilled workers away from the plant.

“The wages at plant Vogtle are much lower than they are in other parts of the state…A lot of these other jobs pay more incentives, so they do get more manpower before Vogtle,” added Salters in an interview...