Apprentice Training Programs – Total Number of Individual Apprentices, 2002-2011

Based upon an aggregate analysis of construction apprentice training programs in states that were included in the OA RAPIDS database, there were 429,578 individual apprentices enrolled in the JATC programs from 2002 – 2011.  During the same period, there were 22,260 individual apprentices enrolled in ABC programs in participating states21 (see Chart 3).  It is important to note that the data presented here does not include all non-union apprentice training programs (those programs, in other words, run by non-union organizations not affiliated with ABC).  The purpose of this report is to compare the union affiliated training programs – the JATCs – with ABC’s apprentice training programs.  One might expect that ABC, which describes itself as the “voice” of the construction industry, would devote resources to education and training that were commensurate with the role that ABC claims for itself in the industry.