Punching In: White House Redoubles Efforts for Apprenticeships

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Training Workers|Pensions and ESG Investing

Rebecca Rainey: The Biden administration wants to create 460 new registered apprenticeship programs, and get more than 10,000 of those trained workers hired over the next year, as part of its latest effort to expand the US Department of Labor’s job training model.

The White House announced Sept. 1 that a network of more than 200 unions, businesses, and organizations it’s dubbed “Apprenticeship Ambassadors” have committed to invest in programs that would fulfill the administration’s new training goal. Those include The North American Building Trades Union, which said ...