Career Connections Helps High School Students Build Skills
In St. Louis County, MO, University City High School students are learning the carpentry craft while in class.
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Training News
KC Apprentices See New Face When Joining Brotherhood
“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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Union Carpenters Attend Career Fairs Councilwide
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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MACRC Carpenters Attend Journeyman Leadership Training
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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Chance Encounter
Carpenters Instructor Changes One Woman’s Life For The Better By Craig Hood Who knew McDonald’s store manager Roxanne Cole would meet a man who would ultimately change her life? This gentleman would frequent the restaurant so often that she knew his usual order, and always took care of him. His name is Tim Rekosh, and
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DOL Changes to Davis Bacon Could Mean Higher Wages
The proposal seeks to speed up future prevailing wage updates, ensuring prevailing wage rates keep up with the cost of living and could mean higher wages for workers.
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Transition Team Visits Kansas City
With more than 52,000 members, the MACRC is one of the biggest, most powerful regional councils in the UBC and the future is bright for our members.
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Apprenticeship Program: Evolving with Industry Demands
By: Bryan T. Benke, MBAFLJAP Coordinator Changing with the Times With an everchanging industry, construction workers face the challenge of staying certified and knowledgeable of changes both within the industry as well as with customers. The St. Louis Floorlayers Joint Apprenticeship Program has begun preparing our workforce for these obstacles. Realizing that many customers in
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New East Moline Carpenters and Millwrights Training Center Featured in Quad Cities Times
EST Perinar recently spoke with the Quad-City Times about our brand new, 55,000-square foot carpenters and millwrights training center being built in East Moline, IL. The new training center will replace two existing training facilities in the area and represents an investment into the future of the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council where many will undergo
Mid-America Regional Council Breaks Ground at Pekin Training Center Annex
No better way to wrap up National Apprenticeship Week last week than our groundbreaking event for a new 15,000 square foot annex at the Mid-America Carpenters Pekin Training Center. We have the best training program in the country, as our signatory contractors will attest. This new annex will make sure our apprentices and journeymen stay up to date
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