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.
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 …
The UBC’s 43rd General Convention will be held Aug. 18-22 in Las Vegas. The convention theme is “The Future Belongs to Those Who Build It.” General conventions are held every five years. Thank you to the members who will serve as delegates at this important event that will set the course of our union for …
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World-class leadership and skill-training programs are available to members at the UBC’s International Training Center in Las Vegas. See the schedule of upcoming programs below. If you are interested in attending any of these programs, please contact CSCRC Chief of Staff John West II.
Local 216 Business Representative Cole Wetzel surprised member Dwight Daniels when he stopped by Daniels’ home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to hand deliver his 70-year pin. Daniels brought out the shadow box he made for his pins and posed for the photo above. Wetzel said Daniels was eager to add the new pin to the box …
The Southern District training trust funds have been merged to create the Southern District Training Trust. The merged fund can offer more and better training to journey-level members as well as registered apprentices. Local control of training is not changing. All training staff members have kept their jobs, and employers who were active fund trustees have …
The CSCRC headquarters mortgage has been paid in full. This means all council real estate is fully owned. It includes local offices in Austin, Texas, Baton Rouge and Metairie in Louisiana, as well as property across from the training center in Russellville, Arkansas.
