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What is Organizing? Organizing takes place when union ‘organizers’ educate unrepresented workers to encourage them to join a union. The education phase can touch on workplace rights, wages, benefits and various other benefits of being a union member. A union organizer is willing to visit unrepresented workers at their home or any other location outside… Read more »

Training No other organization serves the training needs of the piping industry like the United Association. For over a century, the UA has been training the most highly-qualified workers in the United States and Canada in the areas of plumbing, pipefitting, welding, and refrigeration. The rewards of Union Apprenticeship Training are the good wages and… Read more »

Training and representing qualified journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing, pipefitting, and HVACR service industry for more than a century. Local Union 228 steamfitters/pipefitters layout, fabricate, assemble, install, maintain, and repair piping systems that transport all types of fluids, slurries and gas in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. They are the only trade to… Read more »

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