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Dodge and Delay. One immediate issue dividing blacks and union leaders is the apprenticeship system, in which trainees undergo a four-or five-year learning period before being admitted as full-fledged journeymen. Blacks charge, with considerable justice, that the system is often used more as a barrier than as an entranceway. Only 4% of the apprentices in the union-regulated programs are black. Union leaders argue that the apprenticeship system is necessary to maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George...
...coalition is also circulating a petition demanding that Harvard promote all apprentice painters immediately to journeymen status, and rescind all punishments given to "students and workers who took part in the campaign to promote the painters' 'helpers...
...charged last fall that the University was discriminating against the painters' helpers, many of whom were black, by paying them less money for thesame work-that journeymen painters...
...conjunction with the painters' union, Harvard abolished the helper category in January, replacing it with a new "apprentice" category for painters that the University claimed were unqualified to be journeymen...
Current helpers will be placed in the apprentice program according to the extent of their previous experience. This means experienced helpers will not have to complete the entire apprentice program to become journeymen...