As the training administrator at Western Washington Sheet Metal Local 66, Jeff Reinhardt has seen many apprentices come and go. Over the years, he realized a common thread among many of those who ...

Bemnet Bez, a teacher apprentice with the Center for Black Educator Development, works with a student at an elementary school in Camden, N.J. • Between lingering pandemic-era stress and retirements, ...

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left hanging again, but a new administration in Washington could rekindle hopes for change that recently died with a withdrawn ...

The debate over how to build America’s skilled workforce often centers on two models: short-term workforce development programs and traditional trade apprenticeships. Both aim to prepare people for in ...

As Kristina Quinn guided a group of state officials past a barn filled with Holstein calves, she appeared right at home. That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. The 18-year-old, who graduated from ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In honor of National Apprenticeship Day on April 30, HII (NYSE: HII), the nation’s largest military shipbuilder and all-domain defense provider, ...

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Kayla Gunderson spent years working in Minneapolis as a waiter, security guard and even a Papa Murphy’s store manager, all jobs paying less than $20 an hour. “This is not what I wanted for my life,” ...

Finding and retaining top talent remains one of the biggest challenges in manufacturing and one certainly faced by Endress+Hauser, a company with U.S. headquarters in Indiana. The maker of measuring ...

Until recently, "tradeswomen" were as common as unicorns. I’m proud to say that the earliest women pioneers in the building trades were carpenters, like me. Although women still comprise a small ...