With all the work that is going on across the nation, we need help now more than ever to recruit new and experienced help alike. The collaborative effort behind our apprentices who are participating and the Working Game podcast is doing just that. Working with the UA, our State Organizers, and Training Directors from around the country, we are looking to promote several different avenues to get folks in the trade, get them trained, and fill the shortage of manpower required to increase our market share.
In the early 1900’s about 8 out of 10 workers were in some form of union. Today that ratio is disgustingly less. People are blindly taking for granted the benefits brought to them by the blood, sweat, and tears of our founding forefathers. Things like an 8 hour day, the weekend, and not to mention the standards for a livable wage across the nation.
Help Us Fight To Regain Our Industry
The United Association has made a substantial commitment to organize the unorganized, to bring the benefits of union representation to workers in the piping industry who have not had the benefit of belonging to a union. UA organizers are strong, determined, and above all, passionate about ensuring that the rights of all workers are respected and protected.
The UA helps educate both members and non-members about their rights on the job. Learn more by listening to the Working Game Podcast. As in many things, on-the-job knowledge is power.
Organizing is a long and proud tradition in the trade union movement. At the heart of any organizing effort is a desire to bring the protections to workers that only a labor union can provide.
The Working Game Podcast is just a couple of brothers hanging out, having a good time, and sharing thoughts and experiences in and outside of the trade. The hidden agenda is to promote and support the UA by reaching out and getting more folks to apply for the apprenticeship.
Enough about that! We have this little side thing going called eSolidarity. This is a program designed to help out the apprentices that are already in who may have found themselves in a situation where they can’t work or are having some trouble and we need to pass a hat. This is us being proactive and getting in front of these situations where someone needs help and will give us the ability to actually give some real help.
eSolidarity
You can help by signing up to support us in this effort. For just $5 a month, your contribution will help young apprentices you know and love who are having to deal with going to work, school, and live life when they can get through a little easier. When the need arises, we will be able to help them keep the lights on, buy groceries, or maybe even not lose their house if they are in a crisis and can’t work due to injury or illness.
This is a form of solidarity among apprentices but anyone can help! Who is going to notice $5 a month? We throw more than this away on crap at the gas station every day! A large part of your contribution goes directly to the apprentice you signed up through and help promote the fundamental principles supported by the United Association and its brothers and sisters across this great nation. This helps the apprentices who are participating while working, going to class, and getting the training they need while supporting their families! Do your country a solid! Get in, stay in, and help out!
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By signing up and contributing to this cause, a majority of the funding goes directly to the apprentice that you signed up with to help support the working apprentice you know and love! The remainder will be split up to help operate the business end of this effort and build up a pile to provide funding for apprentices who find themselves in a time of need weather it is injury, illness, or unforeseen complications that keep them from working.
Communicating with the apprentice coordinator, I will personally select when and how much each apprentice will receive depending on funds available. I have seen this very same thing happen every year for the last few years for someone by passing the hat and helping a brother out. I am trying to be proactive and help take some of those struggles away and keep the ones we have afloat in a time of need.
Please sign up using the safe and secure method through PayPal, and the link your apprentice provided you will let me know who sent you so they get taken care of and you have the satisfaction that for pennies a day you are helping out an amazing cause.
In eSolidarity, Brother Chad Condon, UA Local 440 Steamfitter and Instructor