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State 'Access for All' apprenticeship readiness program to run Pathways to Progress cohorts in Pontiac

5968774 · October 22, 2025
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Michigan AFL-CIO Workforce Development Institute and local partners described Pathways to Progress, an apprenticeship-readiness program and Career Fitness Camp that will train residents for union-registered apprenticeships with wraparound supports and connections to more than 15 trades unions.

Speakers at the Oct. 21 Pontiac City Council meeting described a new apprenticeship-readiness effort — Pathways to Progress and the Access for All curriculum — planned for Pontiac, aimed at connecting residents to registered union apprenticeships and construction-sector work.

Carlton Jones, whose coalition TDC helped organize the local Career Fitness Camps, described the need for pre-apprenticeship readiness in a unionized construction…

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