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Build Better: Partner with IUPAT Success

Construction Business Owner

Thats where partnering with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) can be a game-changer. Union-trained workers are known for their productivity. Union Partnership: Work in partnership with the union to achieve mutual goals and improve project outcomes. Boost Productivity and Efficiency.

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Smarter Workforce, Stronger Business — Hire IUPAT Apprentices

Construction Business Owner

The unions focus on continuous learning means that even after completing their apprenticeship, journeypersons can pursue advance certifications, a college pathway and leadership training - creating future forepersons, supervisors, and estimators from within your existing workforce.

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Anna Martin, U-PACT Oregon Lead Instructor AT Ironworkers Local 29 Apprenticeship

Construction Business Owner

Martin is now a pre-apprenticeship program instructor for Oregon’s Union Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training program (U-PACT). When she took her journeyman’s exam, she had the highest score of 27 people — and she was the only woman. Her fresh start in construction has led to fresh starts for dozens of other women.

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Bipartisan bill seeks deadlines for union contract agreements

Construction Dive

The Faster Labor Contracts Act would put a clock on negotiations for a labor deal once workers vote to form a union.

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How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

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Pursuing those jobs meant we would have had to use shoddy subcontractors or non-union labor where union labor would have been best. And if you’re not in a union town, like Miami, then align yourself with the best vendors. And yet, when we work in union markets like Chicago, Boston, New York and St.

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Construction trade unions take different approaches to keeping workers safe during pandemic

Construction Dive

Some unions are directing members to stop work on projects that are allegedly failing to enforce COVID-19 safety measures. Others leave it up to the workers.

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Large contractors, union shops better at anti-harassment training

Construction Dive

While more than two-thirds of contractors emphasize the importance of inclusion, just 34% of small companies and 42% of non-union shops do so, a new report found.

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