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What is an Apprenticeship?

An apprenticeship combines on-the-job and classroom training. This allows you as the apprentice to actually earn while you learn. As an apprentice, you will work year-round for electrical contractors, and attend classroom sessions during the academic year. As you learn by doing, you are paid directly by the contractor with which you are employed by. While progressing through the training, you receive guaranteed promotion and pay raises.

Unions have been around for a while now, they where the predecessor to many government agencies like OSHA, NIOSH, and the EPA. The unions provided a fair wage while promoting safety back when there was no government agencies overseeing safety. Before unions the large corporations in the early 1900’s would often provide little or no safety to their workers while the “big cheeses” of these corporations got richer. Unions provided a voice for many of these underpaid workers who worked in very unsafe environments that often sacrificed safety for profits.

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