NABTU's Dr. Tom Kriger on Apprenticeship, AI and The Wizard of Oz

NABTU Director of Education and Research Dr. Tom Kriger discusses the Fitzgerald Act of 1937 and how registered apprenticeship was formalized, NABTU’s 300,000-apprentice roster and the school counselors who are the gatekeepers to recruiting the next generation, the middle ground on responsible AI data center development that the public debate is missing and a detailed Labor Day reading of The Wizard of Oz as L. Frank Baum’s 1890s populist critique of industrial capitalism, including why the person behind the curtain at the end looks familiar today.