Area industrial contractors are creating new solutions for an old and worsening labor problem

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    DRASTIC ACTION: MMR Vice President Jeramiah Blum, talking with students in the company’s Craft Training Center, realized the need for MMR University after the company lost the bulk of its estimating department. (Don Kadair)

    Jeramiah Blum knew something had to be done. In 2021, MMR Group’s vice president of estimating lost the bulk of his estimating department in one fell swoop when 27 people transferred to the construction field.


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