Apprenticeships are dead in the US. They’ve been replaced by companies conning state governments into footing the bill to train their workforce through highly specific community college courses.
Companies want a highly skilled workforce, they just don’t want to pay for them.
As it is, the company that I work for is having a very hard time hiring electricians for our location. We have been trying to get them to let us take on apprentices, but they absolutely refuse to. Our electrician roster is down 40% since I hired on a few years ago, and retirements are whittling that number down even further.
That was my observation as well, when I tried to pursue apprenticeships in the machine trades years ago. Companies lamenting the inability to find workers...yet unwilling to train them. And the local community colleges had just ended or were winding down their machine training programs.
I managed to train myself to do some of the work, and I still enjoy turning a crank or wielding a hand tool when opportunity allows...but it’s an opportunity lost.