An unusual coalition of competing automakers launched a community college curriculum on Wednesday to jointly train the next generation of skilled workers. The effort reflects companies’ increasingly close collaboration with community colleges like the one near the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., where the program will debut.
The idea is to take an unconventional approach to solve a growing problem for U.S. manufacturers: how to train workforces at a time when the rest of the world is becoming more competitive.
In response to that challenge, some sworn enemies in the marketplace — Toyota, Ford, and GM, among others — decided to work together to create “a technical core curriculum that basically would work for all auto manufacturers to support their skilled workforces,” said Dennis Parker, an assistant manager in Toyota’s North American Production Support Center in Georgetown, Ky.
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