The construction of the new state Holyoke Veterans Home includes a goal to use apprentices for 20% of the work hours. This $482 million, union-only project is still in the early stages, with just over ...

Michaela also founded a free online hub in 2023, Women in Construction - hosting events across the country for women in the ...

About 43 percent of apprentices who started a joint union-employer program between 2010 and 2015 finished their program and got a credential, according to the report. Construction apprenticeships are ...

Latest government figures show spending on construction peaked at $1.3 billion in August; however, there is still a huge hurdle facing contractors and hindering the current boom — the availability of ...

David Polk, director of the Wisconsin Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards, speaks at the state's biennial apprenticeship conference. (Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development) In Brief: The ...

The Dept. of Labor's inbox has been swamped by more than 300,000 comments—the vast majority from construction workers, according to a top union official—weighing in on the department’s proposal to ...

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 ...

State labor officials marked Women in Construction Week with a new public awareness campaign and toolkit designed to increase women’s participation in the building trades and expand equitable ...

The Maine Department of Labor has published its latest annual report for the Maine Apprenticeship Program, showing an expansion of pre-apprenticeships and registered apprenticeships in fields such as ...