Construction industry groups welcomed President Trump’s new directive aimed at expanding the rolls of apprenticeship programs and reducing the federal role in determining those programs’ requirements.

Proponents of modernizing the nation’s apprenticeship system have been left hanging again, but a new administration in Washington could rekindle hopes for change that recently died with a withdrawn ...

LA GRANGE, IL — A new national study by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute (ILEPI) has found that on average, graduates of joint labor-management (union) apprenticeship programs in the ...

unCommon Construction, a nonprofit startup that uses semester-long apprenticeships to teach and identify opportunities for high school students, has received a $300,000 donation from two Kentucky ...

It would take 12 years for federal and state government-registered apprenticeship programs to educate the more than half a million workers the construction industry needs to hire in 2023, according to ...

Apprenticeship in union construction (left) and in the open shop (right) would change under a federal proposal that now exempts the industry. Images: IBEW (left); ABC-San Diego (right) August 29, 2019 ...

If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, then apprenticeship could be the right strategy to meet your needs for skilled workers. Almost 14%, or 5.5 million Americans ages 16 to 24 are neither ...

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined leaders from North America’s Building Trades Unions, the National Urban League and graduates of pre-apprenticeship programs in ...

FORT SMITH -- Six students are set to graduate Tuesday from the Residential Construction Apprentice Program. The two-year program equips participants with hands-on experience, industry training and ...

Wappingers-based Michael Carney says being an apprentice has given him the opportunity to learn multiple trades as a laborer and encourages others to consider the career path. Michael Carney, 32, ...