{"id":90292,"date":"2026-01-18T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:21:08","slug":"the-city-of-scranton-pennsylvania-awards-apprenticeship-grants-to-the-carpenters-the-ibew-to-kickstart-the-next-generation-of-union-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90292\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Of Scranton, Pennsylvania Awards Apprenticeship Grants To The Carpenters &#038; The IBEW To \u201cKickstart The Next Generation Of Union Careers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Benefits_of_a_Union_Apprenticeship.jpg\" alt=\"The City Of Scranton, Pennsylvania Awards Apprenticeship Grants To The Carpenters &amp; The IBEW To \u201cKickstart The Next Generation Of Union Careers\u201d\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Robert Tomkavage at The Scranton Times-Tribune reports a pair of Apprenticeship Grants through the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania will help local Unions train future Carpenters and Electrical Workers. The Carpenters\u2019 Apprentice Ready Program (CARP), operated by the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters (EAS Carpenters Union), and the Scranton Electricians Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) Program &#8211; with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 81, each received $25,000 in grant funding, City Officials announced in a news release. \u201cThese local Apprenticeships provide training, personal equipment and teaching materials so we can kickstart the next generation of Union careers in Scranton,\u201d Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>To Continue Reading This Apprenticeship And Training Labor News Story, Go To: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/city-scranton-supports-apprenticeship-programs-200100656.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City of Scranton supports apprenticeship programs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Tomkavage at The Scranton Times-Tribune reports a pair of Apprenticeship Grants through the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4241,178,180,179,4242,4243],"class_list":["post-90292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-labor-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-western-new-york","tag-wny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}