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August 2, 2007

Want to start your own apprentice program?

  • You will need 15 percent apprentice participation for most state contracts by mid-2009. Putting together your own program to achieve that can be a daunting task.
    • By MARGIE SLOVAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Image courtesy of Washington State Department of Transportation [enlarge]
    Atkinson Construction workers jackhammer a bridge as part of an I-5 expansion project in Everett. Washington State Department of Transportation projects in the future will require more apprentices on the jobsite.

    HOW WILL construction contractors who want to bid on big public works jobs meet the increasing apprenticeship quotas required by the state of Washington?


     
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