A hiring initiative is connecting veterans, active service members and their spouses with jobs at electric cooperatives across the country.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association‘s Vets Power Us initiative began when the national coalition – which represents more than 900 consumer-owned electric cooperatives in the U.S. to various legislatures – was established in 2016.
Among the cooperatives it represents is Dalton, Georgia-based North Georgia Electric Membership Corporation, which serves Walker, Catoosa, Floyd, Murray, Chattooga, Gordon and Whitfield counties in Northwest Georgia.
The North Georgia electric cooperative has hired veterans since its incorporation in 1936, according to John McMahan, the corporation’s Human Resources generalist and a retired U.S. Marine.
Ten veterans from various services, including the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, now work full time at NGEMC, and several retirees who served in the armed forces are part-time employees, he said.