How AFL-CIO wants to get more Black men and other workers into apprenticeships
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 19, 2022
With help from Nick Niedzwiadek
MOTOWN MOTIVATION: The AFL-CIO is teaming up with the Chris Gardner Foundation to launch a new program in Detroit this week aimed at getting more high school students from underserved communities — Black men, among others — into apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs in the building trades or automotive industries.
Previewed first for POLITICO, the pilot will be expanded to other cities across the country — including Los Angeles, Austin and New York — over the next few months.
The recently enacted infrastructure bill “has resources in there for apprenticeship programs . . .
