A global skilled trade worker shortage has reached a critical bottleneck, leaving an estimated 1.4 million to 2.1 million skilled trades jobs unfilled in the United States alone.
At a warehouse in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood, students are combatting that statistic. Working with sheet metal, crafting their own toolboxes, each class inches closer to completing the Colorado Sheet Metal Workers Apprenticeship Program. The four-year program pinpoints on specific job skills and even provides equipment needed to enter the workforce.
Learning trade skills can be stressful; Brandi Tafoya knows that all too well…