According to local law 196 in NYC workers are required to complete a certain amount of safety training hours. SST Online Training Courses will satisfy the requirement for general and specialized electives and prescribed courses needed to obtain a Supervisor SST card.
I am a 42 year union carpenter from Arizona and after reading your article I experienced all of the issues you listed during the first few years of my apprenticeship today I sign sponsorship letters for others (the catch 22 in your Article) as my skills improved I no longer was tasked with the undesirable jobs and began to be treated with more respect by my peers the indoctrination spoke of is how the union protects the brotherhood from members who would get trained and then leave taking the skills they learned and becoming non union and undercutting his former union brothers it is unfortunate that someone who is a minority might take this treatment as racist especially in a union where all share the same pAy and benifits
This is an overall wide issue here in the states. Washington is one of them. The construction sites stay white and they do not allow people of color to join most of the time they get turned away. The job sites are full of white men you will see your one or two minority on the sites. This is how they still control the job force. White men having the power to control who works and who doesn’t. Then they look down on the people of color who can not make it because they can not pay bills because they can not get a JOB to pay!! No opportunity, no real chance or change anywhere. Why do they hate our colors so much!? Why can’t they stand to see it here grow and flourish?? It’s all passed down generational hate.
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BY Bill Brown
ON July 30, 2021 01:50 PM
According to local law 196 in NYC workers are required to complete a certain amount of safety training hours. SST Online Training Courses will satisfy the requirement for general and specialized electives and prescribed courses needed to obtain a Supervisor SST card.
BY Casper Boyer
ON January 16, 2022 11:20 AM
I am a 42 year union carpenter from Arizona and after reading your article I experienced all of the issues you listed during the first few years of my apprenticeship today I sign sponsorship letters for others (the catch 22 in your Article) as my skills improved I no longer was tasked with the undesirable jobs and began to be treated with more respect by my peers the indoctrination spoke of is how the union protects the brotherhood from members who would get trained and then leave taking the skills they learned and becoming non union and undercutting his former union brothers it is unfortunate that someone who is a minority might take this treatment as racist especially in a union where all share the same pAy and benifits
BY Jacque
ON February 11, 2022 07:56 AM
This is an overall wide issue here in the states. Washington is one of them. The construction sites stay white and they do not allow people of color to join most of the time they get turned away. The job sites are full of white men you will see your one or two minority on the sites. This is how they still control the job force. White men having the power to control who works and who doesn’t. Then they look down on the people of color who can not make it because they can not pay bills because they can not get a JOB to pay!! No opportunity, no real chance or change anywhere. Why do they hate our colors so much!? Why can’t they stand to see it here grow and flourish?? It’s all passed down generational hate.