RETA Breeze Sep-Oct 2022

FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Hello RETA Family,

RETA-TI • REDWHITEandCOOL (Transitioning Military and Veterans) • WiNR (Women in Natural Refrigeration) • YAYA (Youth and Young Adults) We need your help in saving our industry. We are open to conversations and suggestions. And we really need your volunteerism. Please contact any RETA staff member when you see us at conference or call RETA HQ at 541-497-2955. On another note, and speaking of conference, here we are at that time of year again. Its well into fall and we at RETA are working diligently getting ready for our RETA Superbowl. We are looking forward in seeing each one of you at our annual family reunion aka the RETA National Conference. We have a jammed pack educational venue along with our annual business meeting and awards banquet. This year we have added awards for our exhibitors to be announced at the awards banquet. As always please be safe in your travels and God Bless you All,

Did you know that the industrial refrigeration industry has a major shortfall of qualified operators and technicians worldwide? What are we doing about it? Well to start, RETA has the only ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) certification body for CARO, CIRO, CRST in the world! The RETA National Board is working with the RETA Training Institute Board on development of online training for transitioning military and veterans as part of the REDWHITEandCOOL program. The purpose behind this is to train as many entry level transitioning military and veterans as we can to get them working in our industry. How can you help? You may help by donating to the RETA Training Institute which adds you to the we want to hire list. As we get these individuals trained and certified in CARO we will have a list of resumes for you to choose from. These folks will want to be placed all over the United States. Another way you may help is to volunteer for a RETA or RETA -TI committee, we need volunteers for all of them.

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