Turf war: Union fights open-shop apprenticeship program

Construction unions have long argued that their apprenticeship system produces better-trained workers than non-union shops provide. But now a New York construction union is fighting an open-shop group’s effort to replicate how organized labor trains its members. The turf war is over the New York chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors’ application to certify an apprenticeship program to train carpenters, laborers, ironworkers, sheet metal workers and other tradespeople. The city’s laborers union, Local 79,

source https://therealdeal.com/2020/02/24/turf-war-union-fights-open-shop-apprenticeship-program/