Protect Professional Certifications and Save Union Apprenticeships

FTI students

Brothers and Sisters:

IUPAT apprenticeships and your hard-earned professional credentials are in danger.

As you know, IRAPs directly threaten trainees currently enrolled in union-led programs as well as all members who have had IUPAT training in the past.

This is a Call to Action for all hands on deck to fight against anti-union operatives in Washington:

Click here to take action now. 

This action is vital to our survival as building trades unions. We need to make every effort to gain as many IUPAT member comments and continue to show our strength when we put our “Feet on the Street.”

Brothers and Sisters – we need to take action against IRAPs NOW, and we’ve made it easy for you to do so. Watch this short tutorial from Director of Organizing Matt Trzaska and Glazier Instructor Matt Fox on how to send a comment directly to the Department of Labor.

DC 21 Donates to Ronald McDonald House

DC 21 DONATES $60,000, HUNDREDS OF WORK HOURS TO RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE EXPANSION

DC 21 members attended the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of Ronald McDonald House’s new expansion in West Philadelphia. The campus now boasts an eight-story residence for families seeking medical treatment at one of the several area pediatric hospitals, in addition to a renovated administrative headquarters.

 

DC 21 donated $60,000 to the construction of Jill and Alan B. Miller Tower. The residence can now accommodate 127 families every night — nearly three times as many families as its old space. Members from DC 21 also volunteered in repairing walls and ceilings, installing glass doors and painting the 19th century historic mansion.

Ronald McDonald Houses Charities began in Philadelphia in 1974 as a low or no-cost housing option for seriously ill children and their families from around the world. The organization strives to lessen the financial burden faced by families by offering housing, meals, and child care.

Great job, DC 21!

Wolf Administration Tours Glazier Apprenticeship Program

Philadelphia – Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development Eileen Cipriani toured a state-registered apprenticeship program for in-demand architectural glass and metal technicians, called glaziers, in Philadelphia. The apprentices learn to cut, install, replace, and remove all types of glass and architectural metal, filling the growing demand for skilled glaziers for both residential and commercial projects.

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