The Southern Regional Council of Carpenters’ Member Engagement Program coordinators have begun attending a leadership-development program at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas.
Shery Ragsdale became a union millwright at age 49, after working as a nurse and a high-level manager with the Tupperware company. Read our Q&A with this Local 216 member to learn more about her bittersweet journey and her message for fellow members.
Even in the South, winter weather can pose serious health risks for workers in our industries. Extended exposure to cold or freezing temperatures – or a combination of cool temperatures, wind, and moisture – can lead to frostbite, hypothermia, trench foot, and other conditions.
One of the most critical challenges facing the construction industry is a lack of skilled craftspeople. In some markets, especially here in the rapidly growing South, the work is available, but the skilled tradespeople aren’t. The Southern District Training Trust Fund is working to change that.
Western Industrial Contractors and its SRCC workforce are eight weeks ahead of schedule as they wrap up the first upgrade in decades of the automated mail sorting system at the Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center.
Just two months after a merger brought together three regional councils in the UBC Southern District, 132 delegates and alternates of the newly formed Southern Regional Council of Carpenters gathered on Dec. 13 in New Orleans, where they learned more about the merger and how it will benefit members.
Work has been done to merge UBC retirement and benefit funds in the Southern District. These mergers lower administrative costs, give you more service, and provide better returns on our investments.
It’s been a busy year for Dayami Hernandez. The Cuba native moved to the United States from Jamaica and, after 20 years of working of as a nurse, became a union solar-panel installer with Carpenters Local Union 551 in Pasadena, Texas.
Current and upcoming work opportunities in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi include those listed below. If you are interested in any of these projects, make sure you are on the ready-to-work list. Contact your business representative for more information.
Current and upcoming work opportunities in Texas and Oklahoma include those listed below. If you are interested in any of these projects, make sure you are on the ready-to-work list. Contact your business representative for more information.
