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Tompkins Build launches paid apprenticeship-readiness program to feed local trades
Summary
Ithaca Area Economic Development announced Tompkins Build, a paid 220-hour apprenticeship-readiness program starting March 31 that partners with 10 local building trades and will run two cohorts in 2025; the county legislature contributed funding (amount not specified).
Ithaca Area Economic Development announced a paid apprenticeship-readiness program called Tompkins Build that launches March 31 and will run through June 12, the agency told the Tompkins County Legislature on March 18.
The program is a 220-hour, hands-on “pre-apprenticeship” that combines the nationally recognized MC3 multicraft core (120 hours) with about 100 additional hours of communications and remediation. Danielle Szabo, director of workforce innovation for Ithaca Area Economic Development, told legislators the course pays participants $15.50 an hour and provides OSHA-10 and first aid/CPR certifications plus a student tool kit and safety gear.
The program is intended to introduce participants to union apprenticeship pathways across local trades and to address longstanding hiring needs in construction. "We are actually launching this at the end of this month and we are gonna be running 2 cohorts…
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