Union programs are the last bastion of craftsmanship.
Edward Sullivan, president of the Building and Construction Trades Dept. of the AFL-CIO, used maximum bluster a couple of months ago in calling on the U.S. Labor Dept. to investigate and remedy flaws in the apprenticeship programs of the nonunion Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).
Based on a six-month study by the BCTD, Sullivan charged that ABC programs overall produce twice as many dropouts as graduations, and some local programs produce stupefying ratios of cancellations to graduations.