KAUKAUNA, Wis. (WFRV) – A record 138 first-year apprentices are beginning careers in the skilled trades through U-A Local 400.
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The apprentices come from 54 towns across 17 Northeast Wisconsin counties and will be employed by 34 area contractors.
The sixth annual Apprentice Signing Day was held Friday in Kaukauna, recognizing the largest first-year class in the organization’s history.
“Apprenticeships are a pretty big opportunity that not a lot of people get, so for them to offer this many and to take us all on to teach us, it’s stuff that’s gonna help the future of the economy,” said Cade Boynton, a first-year plumbing apprentice…