Legislation aimed at helping non-college-bound students and workers train for Connecticut’s construction trades won overwhelming approval last week in the legislative Labor Committee to create a group of professionals to look into existing entry-level programs and increase access to various apprenticeship programs. While Ackert’s original proposed bill would have created a new construction pipeline emulating the manufacturing program, the legislative process so far has turned it into a study. As currently written, the study group would examine opportunities in existing public high school curriculums and include pre-apprenticeship programs and avenues to higher education including college degrees in construction management. Some of the state’s unionized worker forces, such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 488 of Western Connecticut has a free apprenticeship program.
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