Giffey promotes training in the craft professions

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  Franziska Giffey (SPD), Governing Mayor, hammers nails into a boarding beam.

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  Franziska Giffey (SPD, r), governing mayor of Berlin, talks to apprentices at the Fachgemeinschaft Bau training yard in Marienfelde.

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  Franziska Giffey (SPD, l), governing mayor of Berlin, prepares the subsoil for a paved road with apprentice Walter Leon at the Fachgemeinschaft Bau training yard in Marienfelde.

Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey has promoted apprenticeships in the crafts.

Out of a total of 15,000 apprenticeship places in Berlin, more than 7,000 are still vacant this summer, especially in the crafts, said the SPD politician on Tuesday during a visit to the Fachgemeinschaft Bau training centre in Marienfelde. She said that the crafts deserve more attention when it comes to choosing a profession. Now was the right time to decide in favour of it.

"Huge demand for craftsman services"

Economics Senator Stephan Schwarz (non-party) also pointed to the job prospects: "If you look at the next few years in perspective, we will always have a huge demand for craftsmen's services," he said. Craft professions are absolutely crisis-proof, he said. "That was not always the case. We also had a lot of unemployed craftsmen in the 80s. But that will not happen in the next few years."