New government affairs team member hopes to inspire change in Oklahoma
Growing up in a union family in Oklahoma, Alexandra “Allie” Williams didn’t think she would become a carpenter, joking, “I accidentally joined the union seven years ago.”
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Shaping the long-term vision of the Member Engagement Program
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.
‘It saved me’: Union job, family pulls Local 216 member through dark time
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.
SRCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Featured in Tampa bay times
An opinion piece SRCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer and CEO Kavin Griffin wrote discussing opportunities trade careers offer was featured in the Tampa Bay Times on Feb. 4. You can read the full column below or at the Tampa Bay Times.
How to Protect workers from cold stress
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.
Building a skilled workforce: A look at the Southern District Training Trust Fund
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.
Contractor two months ahead of schedule on USPS upgrade project, thanks to SRCC workforce
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.
Leaders, members discuss increased power, possibilities at SRCC’s first delegate conference
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.
Member Spotlight: The jones family legacy
The legacy of the Texas-based Jones family in Local 2232 is profound. John Vernon Jones, a current Council Representative, carried his family’s history with him when he joined the union in 2004. He later worked as a general foreman at the Budweiser Brewery in Houston and as a high-speed rotor balance technician at the Ethos …