Yes, lack of apprentice training (and I notice here we are speaking about apprentices, not university grads) is an issue apparent worldwide, it goes with the desire not to train anybody ab-initio but to poach them from others, and yet still pay at local labour rates and with poor benefits which the people from Boston HQ would never put up with. Which has worked short term for a generation but now is increasingly an issue.
The problem is more fundamental than that. Our 'elites' have created a generation that believes you are a failure if you don't go to college, and dismiss mechanical/manual labor jobs as failures. So we have millions of new college graduates with degrees it literature, women's studies, etc. that have minimal real world value to justify their massive college price tag - graduates who's real world skill set is good for little more than flipping burgers, while there is a critical shortage of skilled machinists, as well as plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, etc. There is a vocational-technical school a few miles from where I live - they have trouble filling their classes while the local universities are bursting at the seams with humanities majors.
It's gotten a little better the last few years - emphasis on students going into STEM fields, but there are a lot of people who don't have the mental makeup and/or skillsets to be a good engineers - but have talents that would allow them to become very successful in vocational-technical fields. As a society, we've stopped valuing the people who actual make or fix stuff. That needs to change...