Everett pre-apprenticeship program preps youth for manufacturing jobs
EVERETT — Gavin Comer is ready to start building airplanes.
He, along with seven others under age 24, is about to complete a specialized training program that will give him a fast-track route to a possible manufacturing job at Boeing, a job he couldn’t imagine himself doing before he began working at a new pre-apprenticeship class just a few months earlier.
The classes were offered by the Machinists Institute, an educational nonprofit established by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, the union that represents manufacturing workers across the aerospace industry, including around 33,000 Boeing employees in Washington.
The pre-apprenticeship programs — which the nonprofit is now offering in Everett for the first time out of a newly built three-story facility near Paine Field — are 12-week courses teaching manufacturing, welding or mechanic skills. The goal is to get people apprenticeships and eventually full-time careers making journeyman wages.
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