“My job here at the apprenticeship is to help the apprentices coming aboard to transition into the career. I’m the first guy in the chain,” Winemiller said.
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From Chicago to Springfield, MO, and everywhere in between, our members and representatives have been hitting the road and attending career fairs.
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It was the first Journeymen Leadership training since our merger and attendees had a chance to get to know each other, learn new skills, and meet with EST Gary Perinar to ask questions about the latest Union initiatives.
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After two years of Covid hiatus, retirees are back to monthly gatherings, seeing familiar faces and enjoying old friends. In early 2020, as the world was first learning of a deadly virus spreading across the globe, all of society went into lockdown. Businesses closed their doors, working from home became the norm, and social gatherings
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Thanks again to all the Representatives, members, retirees & volunteers who hit the streets this week to educate the public about construction industry tax fraud. We blanketed every area of our jurisdiction with banners and handbills explaining how harmful tax fraud is to workers, our signatory contractors and the public at large. #StopTaxFraud
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On our new In Memoriam page we honor our Brothers and Sisters who passed away in 2021. Please pause to reflect on the lifelong contributions that all of these members made on your behalf toward the betterment of or trade. Each Brother and Sister is an inspiration for us to carry on the torch they
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CHICAGO — Workers around the state have new protections to help ensure they are paid what’s owed to them under new legislation that passed the Illinois General Assembly on Friday. HB5412 makes a primary contractor liable for the failure of a subcontractor to pay wages owed to its workers. The subcontractor would in turn be
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The project is estimated to cost at least $800 million and will employ up to 1,300 construction workers a day.
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Transition Team Visits St. Louis Area The Transition Team has been keeping busy and logging miles, introducing everyone to our new, expanded council. In St. Louis, union leaders met with members, contractors and local officials, toured residential and commercial sites, had lunch with apprentices, and handed out a boatload of t-shirts. One thing is already
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Multiple members have been out at the site showing that Union Carpenters will always show up to protect our work and future work to come.
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