Once again this spring Local 633 apprenticeship coordinator Moke Eaglefeathers scoured Minnesota’s and Northern Wisconsin’s Native American reservations to recruit youngsters for this summer’s Cement Masons Industry Orientation Training Program, a ten week pre-apprenticeship program.
The Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council held an Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves (ESGR) signing ceremony, the first official step in the union building trades becoming a Yellow Ribbon Company.
Local 10 sheet metal apprentices have been going through their version of mid-term exams. More accurately, it’s a contest between the different classes but it serves an important function – it’s a barometer for each apprentice to check where their…
Kate Zelko – Cement Masons Instructor and Mentor
The cement masons and plasterers apprentices at Local 633 turn their indoor training center floor into a winter wonderland for the holiday season.
This Labor Day 2021 public approval of labor unions is at a generational high.
Gleaming amidst the piles of rubble that were once retail establishments and the boarded up facades of stores still standing on Lake Street in Minneapolis stood the Laborers Local 563 semi tractor trailer. It brought relief, in the way of food, to the neighborhood.
As the weather begins to warm up and the snow begins to melt, another rite of spring begins in Minnesota — the shipping season starts on the Great Lakes.
Larry Gilbertson, the president of the Apprenticeship Coordinators Association, once again emceed the 14th Annual Injured Apprentice Dinner at Mancini’s Restaurant Monday night, Feb. 3.
Women at the Trades Women Build Nations Conference get encouragement from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Rice County Habitat for Humanity’s latest home project is located on Willow Street, one of the city’s main throughfares in Faribault, MN.
Residents of Minnesota don’t fear winter. They embrace it. Such was the case on Saturday, Jan. 19, when 100 kids joined their parents to go fishing on Coon Lake as part of the Take Kids Ice Fishing Day, sponsored by…
