Editorial: Apprentice bill works its way closer to passage

Editorial: Apprentice bill works its way closer to passage

Most public construction projects in Massachusetts would be required to use apprentices under a bill passed overwhelmingly by the House late last month. The legislation, approved 154-1, would expand the state’s trades’ workforce by requiring the hiring of apprentices for all contracts awarded for public construction projects over $10 million. Effective a year after signed into law, this bill would require projects to hire apprentices to work 5% …