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job for themselves and for their families. And we want to make good on that promise in
every single community. And nobody knows that the way our vice president does. Now, I have
known her for a very long time. She was the attorney general in California when we met
and she has been a fighter on these issues, her whole career. And so she's also somebody
who understands that opportunity has to be available in every community. When she says,
you know, I'm going to be the first, but not the last. She means it, not just about the
position that she holds now, but about opportunity in every industry, in every single community,
about saying that, you know, we're going to open them up so that everybody sees themselves
in the future that we're building, a future in which everybody can have a good job. So
with that, I'm going to turn it over to our amazing vice president.
Thank you, and to our labor secretary. Thank you so very much for your work. So it's great
to be back in Madison, Mayor. I want to thank you for your leadership. And thanks for
greeting me on the tarmac and riding over with me. The work that is happening here
really is a wonderful example of so many of our administration's priorities, including
the important collaboration between us at the federal level and leaders at the local
level, like the mayor of Madison, because this work that we see behind us is a function
of that partnership around how we can get federal dollars out to local governments and
local communities in a way that they then invest in the talent of the community. And so it
is an example, then, of partnership. It is also an example of the fact that when we
invest in the American people, including the American worker, everyone benefits. So the
apprentices that we have been talking with today, they are highly skilled. They're involved
in very hardcore education that is about understanding technology, understanding math, understanding
what we need to do to integrate technology with traditional work that is about building
infrastructure. They are doing these programs around the clock. Apprenticeship programs
for labor and union apprenticeship programs also pay their apprentices while they're in
the program, which means that people don't have to worry about whether they have to borrow
money in order to receive an education that is for the benefit of the community and its
productivity. These apprentices are some of them right out of high school. One young gentleman
that I spoke with, he decided to join the apprentice because he had a new baby, a son,
and wanted to make sure that he was on a path that was about not only a job but a career.
So I say all that to say that this is another example of also the partnership between our
administration and unions around the apprenticeship programs that they create for young people
to enter a profession, enter a career. That means a very high quality of life for themselves
and their families. All of that to say today, one of the announcements that we are making
in the president has made in Washington is that we have now issued and the president
has issued an executive order, an EO, that will direct federal agencies to explore what
federal jobs we have that can be filled by the highly skilled folks who work, who have
been trained in apprenticeship programs, and not just giving these jobs only to people
with a four-year college degree. This is very important because what we have demonstrated
with so much of the apprenticeship work that is happening as we invest in America and rebuild
America's infrastructure, again, I will repeat.
Director Bus Rapid Transit System here in
Madison is so that people can get two jobs more efficiently and more effectively all
of that work that is being done here is really important to build our economy here in Madison.
This work would not be possible without the support of the president and the vice president.
These investments that have come from the federal government are absolutely critical
because it is getting done. It is not coming in and we are paying the support that you
see behind us and then reverberating throughout our economy. I just cannot state how important
it is to have a partner in the White House who believes in cities, who, as the vice president
said, believes in investing in cities and the work that we're doing, not just here in Madison,
but across the country. The state of Madison and cities across the country is strong because
of the investments that President Biden and vice president Harris have made in our communities
and we are so grateful for that. I'm really grateful the folks that are standing behind
us and the work that they're doing because, as the vice president said when we were talking
to the apprentices, all of the work that they do in D.C. and all of the work that I do down
in City Hall is great but it's not possible without the people who actually do the work
to run the conduit and lay the bricks and build the buildings and make the things happen
on the ground. That's what it's all about. I'm delighted to be here. Madam Vice President,
thank you again, Secretary, thank you again for being here. Thank you for the investments
in Madison and particularly in transit. It's an honor to be here and thank you all for the
work that you're doing. We really appreciate it.
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Hey, Marty.
Uh-oh.
Thank you.
All right.
So we are here.
Thank you.
What's the president's message tomorrow night?
Yeah.
Yeah, so this is where I'm going.
Yeah.
How long was that time?
It was just four years.
Okay.
Now I have more or something in there.
Uh-huh.
Offer me an apprenticeship position.
And so you've been in the apprenticeship then for how long?
Eight months.
Okay.
How's that going?
Good.
What kind of classes are you taking in the practice?
What do you learn?
Uh-huh.
Just how to lay to the lines, level my materials.
Yeah.
How much you need?
Those apprenticeship programs are tough.
Is it four-year program?
Uh-huh.
Three years?
Uh-huh.
I go every other one.
Okay.
And you have the mentor and some of you are teaching you and taking me around.
Yeah.
Development and relationship there, huh?
I love our practice programs.
You know, we're going to, we're announcing today that we're going to start to open up
federal jobs for apprenticeship-trained people so that these jobs are historically required
for your college degree.
Open them up so that we can have as many that are trained through the apprenticeship programs
where, you know, those are just as tough.
And the skills they just as high as any kind of four-year education you could get.
So that's part of one year is to highlight what you guys are going to, in terms of what
you've learned, what you're teaching at the apprenticeship.
You're my people about the high level of skills.
We're required to do this part.
So I'm going to talk to you about that.
Tell me about you.
Um, so I'm actually an Asian vendor, an Asian vendor, so my job is pretty much just make
sure they have all the, like, block, mod.
Yeah.
And, like, anything I need to make first talk about, I just started starting to go a little
bit.
I started apprenticeship a month ago.
So I hadn't started my classes, but I, um, I got to the apprenticeship program because
of my fiance.
She, she, she's also a brand flavor.
So if you were talking with other high school graduates or other people, you don't really
know about apprenticeship programs and what they can offer, what would you tell them?
That they're great benefits.
You got it a lot to earn.
I've learned a lot just a month, one time, nine years.
Um, it's great pay.
Yep.
Yeah.
What do you think you guys will be doing if you weren't in an apprenticeship program right
now?
I would probably still be working factory.
Uh-huh.
Let's see.
I have no idea.
This is kind of what I wanted to do.
Ever since I got in the high school kind of started thinking about jobs, I've done one
of them going to some sort of trade and apprenticeship program.
Yeah.
This is great work.
Well, you know, I mean, we're creating the jobs in terms of putting the federal dollars
into building up infrastructure like this.
But we can't do any of it if you guys weren't on the ground, putting in long hours and learning
all of these skills that are, you know, that require that kind of training.
This is high level stuff.
It's really great.
And that's why we wanted to be here to talk about what you guys are doing as an example
of how important this work is.
So you guys are making a difference in the last of people you're never going to meet.
But because you're doing so well, your model's about what can be done.
So thank you for that.
Is there a shortage with weeks of change?
Yeah.
I believe that the only one on site.
That's a big problem.
What do you think that is?
What's happening?
Well, we're building a lot.
Yeah.
Just overall growing pretty fast.
So the demand is high.
The demand is high.
Yeah.
And, you know, we're trying to communicate to folks the value of these jobs.
Yeah.
Which these guys clearly understand, but not everybody does.
Right.
So we're struggling to get people into the pathways that would connect them with an apprenticeship
in the trades in particular.
Yeah.
And so these jobs are paying about $27, $47 an hour.
I mean, that's part of what we want.
Yes.
We want people.
What was that factory job that you would be other by doing things?
I would be making $20 an hour.
It's great to buy.
Yeah.
Was your high school very supportive of you going down this path?
It was.
Yeah.
So I found the pre-job class.
I was in a construction class.
And we went to a job here in Madison.
I saw a masonry.
So you didn't grow up in Madison?
No, I didn't.
I live in Cambridge.
Okay.
That's right.
I went to high school.
And we went to the job fair here in Madison.
It was a metals building.
And they had an old masonry station set up.
And they let you try it hands-on and talk to you about it.
I'm actually going to the job fair again April 3rd.
And I'm going to be teaching.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
Same job for us.
This is great.
We learned about it today.
This is wonderful.
We always talk about this.
We want high school kids to hear that this is a viable respect.
This is a good path, right?
You don't have to go down.
We always say this.
I do all these jobs.
The vice president said don't require four-year degrees.
Yeah.
We shouldn't be pushing people just down that path.
You're going to put it down for that.
Good stuff, guys.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You want to take care?
Okay.
You take care.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Are you excited about your futures?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
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Okay.
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It's pretty fast-paced.
It's a pretty fast pace, like once a year, it was $6.75 a race, so it pays off.
I don't care if they make a pretty good pace.
I had my son.
So when I had my son, I kind of needed a job with my stable head.
You know, what'd you get with me, right?
You should get a career, not just a job.
That's what I wanted.
I wanted to feel like I progressed in the state in a really long time.
I learned about the program from...
So originally, I did a non-union, an electrical program, and then I learned about the union,
and kind of the differences, and I felt like the union was better for me and for what I wanted to do.
So that's a pretty simple thing.
Yeah.
So one of the big differences for me coming from non-union to union is
in the non-union, you can kind of get pigeonholed in to do one thing,
and then when you go union, they have certain rules and things in place where you can't be, you know,
you're supposed to do only one thing, you have to do multiple things, and have a guy not to do it.
Yeah.
I know we've never introduced it, because we worked at the same place before together,
and I did my first years in the apprenticeship there.
I feel like this year is a bit better for me.
We're not so good.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good morning.
Madam Secretary.
Yes, exactly.
Oh, okay.
Okay, terrific.
Hi, everybody.
It's good to be here with obviously here.
There we go.
Our Vice President.
She knows well how a good job changes lives.
I know that, and obviously the President knows it too.
We talk a lot about infrastructure in this administration.
That's because the President and the Vice President
are delivering on historic investments to transform infrastructure
both here in Wisconsin and across the country.
When I talk about infrastructure, I think about our workforce system.
Our workforce is roads and bridges too.
It's the roads and bridges that connect people to the good jobs they want and need
and employers to the people they want and need.
And that infrastructure has also needed some work.
It's had some potholes.
It's got some cracks in it.
Some communities can't find an on-ramp without going a long way.
And so we need that infrastructure to be as strong as our physical infrastructure.
And so we're making lots of investments here in Wisconsin
and across the country to make that happen.
And knowing that, we also know that apprenticeships are like the super highways
of that infrastructure system.
So we just got to meet with and talk to some apprentices
who are realizing the promise of a good job for themselves and for their families.
And we want to make good on that promise in every single community.
And nobody knows that the way our Vice President does.
Now, I have known her for a very long time.
She was the Attorney General in California when we met,
and she has been a fighter on these issues her whole career.
And so she's also somebody who understands that opportunity has to be available
in every community.
When she says, you know, I'm going to be the first, but not the last.
She means it not just about the position that she holds now,
but about opportunity in every industry, in every single community,
about saying that, you know, we're going to open them up
so that everybody sees themselves in the future that we're building,
a future in which everybody can have a good job.
So with that, I'm going to turn it over to our amazing Vice President.
Thank you. Thank you.
And to our Labor Secretary, thank you so very much for your work.
So it's great to be back in Madison, Mayor.
I want to thank you for your leadership,
and thanks for greeting me on the tarmac and riding over with me.
The work that is happening here really is a wonderful example
of so many of our administration's priorities,
including the important collaboration between us at the federal level
and leaders at the local level like the Mayor of Madison.
Because this work that we see behind us is a function of that partnership
around how we can get federal dollars out to local governments
and local communities in a way that they then invest in the talent of the community.
And so it is an example, then, of partnership.
It is also an example of the fact that when we invest in the American people,
including the American worker, everyone benefits.
So the apprentices that we have been talking with today,
they are highly skilled, they're involved in very hardcore education
that is about understanding technology, understanding math,
understanding what we need to do to integrate technology with traditional work
that is about building infrastructure.
They are doing these programs around the clock.
Apprenticeship programs for labor and union apprenticeship programs
also pay their apprentices while they're in the program,
which means that people don't have to worry about whether they have to borrow money
in order to receive an education that is for the benefit of the community
and its productivity.
These apprentices are some of them right out of high school.
One young gentleman that I spoke with, he decided to join the apprentice
because he had a new baby, a son, and wanted to make sure that he was on a path
that was about not only a job, but a career.
So I say all that to say that this is another example of also the partnership
between our administration and unions around the apprenticeship programs
that they create for young people to enter a profession, enter a career.
That means a very high quality of life for themselves and their families.
All of that to say today, one of the announcements that we are making
and the President has made in Washington is that we have now issued
and the President has issued an executive order, an EO,
that will direct federal agencies to explore what federal jobs we have
that can be filled by the highly skilled folks who have been trained in apprenticeship programs
and not just giving these jobs only to people with a four-year college degree.
This is very important because what we have demonstrated with so much of the apprenticeship work
that is happening as we invest in America and rebuild America's infrastructure,
again I will repeat, is that they are learning skills that are about engineering and technology.
They are learning skills that is about complex math and science
and these are the kinds of skills that we need in a variety of jobs
that are not only in our in addition to the work that we are doing to rebuild America's infrastructure.
So I am very proud to be here with these leaders
and with these incredible, highly skilled people
who are part of a profession that is about building up our communities
and normally you talk a little bit more about what's happening and what's going to apply to your work
because she has made it as part of her agenda of leadership to invest in public transit
and the work she is doing here in Madison is an example of what can happen
in local communities around the country, which is to invest in the infrastructure,
do the public private partnership, do the partnership with the federal government
and expand public transit in a way that will be to the benefit of all working people in her city
but everywhere in terms of the model that you are providing.
So with that I would like to introduce the mayor of Madison, thank you.
Thank you Madam President, thank you.
I am so delighted to have the Vice President here today
here at our Metro Transit Facility on Hanson, where we are under construction
to build a bus barn where our new
to be serviced
to make a whole set of electric chargers for them
and then it will go out.
They will provide really important transportation to folks in our community.
One of the main reasons that we are investing in transit
and that we are creating, in fact, a bus rapid transit system here in Madison
is so that
here in Newark, what is possible
and these investments that have come from the federal government
are absolutely critical to this work getting done.
It is hundreds of millions of dollars that are coming into our economy
that are paying the salaries of the city that you see behind us
and then reverberating throughout our economy.
I just cannot state how important it is to have a partner in the White House
who believes in cities, who, as the Vice President said,
believes in investing in cities and the work that we are doing,
not just here in Madison, but across the country.
The state of Madison and the state of cities across the country
is strong because of the investments that President Biden
and Vice President Harris have made in our communities.
And we are so grateful for that.
I'm really grateful to folks that are standing behind us
in the work that they're doing because, as the Vice President said
when we were talking to the apprentices,
all of the work that they do in D.C.
and all of the work that I do down in City Hall
is great, but it's not possible without the people who actually do the work
to run the conduit and lay the bricks and build the buildings
and make the things happen on the ground.
And that's what it's all about.
And so I'm really delighted to be here.
Madam Vice President, thank you again, Secretary.
Thank you again for being here.
Thank you for the investments in Madison
and particularly in transit.
It's an honor to be here.
And thank you all for the work that you're doing.
We really appreciate it.
Vice President Biden, Vice President Biden,
what are your thoughts about another rematch with Donald Trump?
I think we'll have another rematch with Donald Trump.
Thank you.
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Yeah.
We just have the camera going right here.
But we can't move up any further.
Okay.
Alright.
Are you going to send us the stuff on, like, apprenticeship,
work with them, or anything, so on this press call?
Um, with decent background, however, we didn't share any
ways of the books that she met with.
Not really.
We'll check in with our leader person.
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How many of you can get us?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
I just want to make sure, though, I thought I would like a bat in the front, and it doesn't
show the address.
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It's the thing, it's the thing, it's the thing, it's the thing, it's the thing, it's the thing.
Thank you.
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It's the thing, it's the thing, it's the thing.
these people had this land right here. They gave it to the city and so people
could have access. So they just had this little park here. But people like it to
make them have access to it. I think you're right, that's kind of the
cranky place. It's very good. This is really strange. Yeah, but she makes me happy. Yeah, this is just beautiful.
This is beautiful. This is really beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
It's quite steep really. I mean you as a child you wouldn't have minded that.
Well I used to run all over the place.
Is it cool back here?
Yeah, it is. I don't remember the house as much as I remember the path down to the lake and we would take walks.
But it's very special. Very special. And of course you guys get so wonderful.
And allowing this intrusion into your beautiful place. Yeah, it's very special.
Welcome to my Madison roots.
One of my goals. I'm very excited.
Yeah, really excited.
It's so exciting. It's so exciting.
It's so very exciting.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow. Family, sisters.
Okay.
Thank you.
Hannah, which way?
Thank you.