November is apprenticeship month as NYS promotes job opportunities
Erica Rechner, director of Opportunities Long Island, a pre-apprenticeship program aimed at creating pathways for underserved communities to find work as apprentices in unionized building trades, said apprenticeships can change lives.
"The goal of our program is to help individuals who traditionally wouldn’t be able to access these opportunities," Rechner said. Opportunities Long Island selects 20 to 25 students each year to participate in an intensive eight-week program that prepares them to join a trade union as an apprentice.