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:: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 ::
Nothing nailed down; Contractors question fairness of plan to require apprenticing BY INDRANI SEN, Newsday
In the last two years, Kim Doherty, a single mother of three, has learned to shingle a house, build a roof, install a window. And she has learned how to do all of this safely.
Before she joined the four-year apprenticeship program of Carpenters Local 7, 'I could only have dreamed of it,' Doherty, 35, of Holbrook, said. 'If it wasn't for this training, I really don't know where I would be. Probably another statistic, sitting on welfare ... This is a gift from God, really.'
Few dispute the value of apprenticeship programs like the one Doherty is in. But a proposed resolution in Brookhaven that would require all construction contractors hired by the town to have state-approved apprenticeship programs has some worried that the system unfairly will benefit unions in the bidding process, and that taxpayers will end up paying a larger bill.------------------------------------------- posted 7:12 AM :: reference link ::
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