The CCA Reality: Commodity or Career? Thoughts?
Nothing illustrates this crisis of confidence more than the state of the CCA position. The message received daily is painfully clear — your labor is valuable but your future is not guaranteed. The CCA classification was sold as a pathway, but for too many it has become a holding pattern with no horizon. No job stability, no sense of permanence, treated more like a commodity than a skilled professional.
When your union and your employer both struggle to give you a clear answer about your own future, what does that say about the state of the craft?