If you want more people to work in trades, then you really need to improve the conditions. I remember being at a family dinner with a couple of sheet metal workers who were talking about the **** they put apprentices through (basically hazing and bullying that they considered to be "pranks"). And then not 5 minutes later, they were complaining how no young people were sticking it out in their trade and blaming it all on Millennials' laziness.
People vote with their feet, and if there's a shortage of tradespeople despite good pay and benefits, there's probably a good reason for that.
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