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 ...

Thanks to a Pre-Apprenticeship Program in Heavy Highway Construction, lives are changing. It's no secret that constructing highways and bridges (aka heavy highway construction) is an exciting field ...

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 ...

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left hanging again, but a new administration in Washington could rekindle hopes for change that recently died with a withdrawn ...

At current rates of participation and completion, federal and state government-registered apprenticeship programs will fail to meet the construction industry’s short- and long-term skilled workforce ...

A carpentry apprentice, a journeyman electrician and a contracting firm vice president discussed the benefits, hard work and quick career progression inherent to construction.

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.

The 12th Five Year Plan (2011-15) in China highlighted the significance of apprenticeship with the motto, “One who gets trained gets a job, and one who has a job gets training.” This mantra ...

Regional disparities in construction apprenticeships have prompted calls for local plans to focus on helping employers ...