Apprenticeship - It's All About
Standards
We have seven training centers, with over 700 apprentices currently in
training in the Southern California region. Our training centers are in Compton, Gardena, San Diego, Colton,
Ventura, Buellton and San Luis Obispo, CA.
Our sixty-eight instructors are all accredited through the Cal State
Teaching System, and they all have received a minimum of an additional five years of
Instructor Training
at the United Association's Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
WHERE COMPETENCY BEGINS:
Apprenticeship is the Heart and Soul of our
Union
By setting high standards,
apprenticeship training maintains quality and productivity. By limiting entry
into the industry as an apprentice based on need, it guards against an oversupply of unqualified
labor.
Apprenticeship, jointly administered by labor and
management, is a time-tested model for what education is all about giving young
people usable skills to make a contribution in the real world. The
apprenticeship system works because of many people: contractors, U. A. district
councils, local unions, and thousands of instructors, journeymen and
apprentices.
Our entry level members come out of their five year, two
nights per-week apprenticeship, coordinated with on the job training, instilled with a full understanding of the basics of the
trade, and a highly developed sense of what the next twenty years looks like in
the industry. They are fully rounded craft workers, ready and able to meet
whatever challenges are set by their employers.
Plumber 5 Year Curriculum
Orientation * First
Aid & CPR Cert. * Use & Care of Tools * * Basic Piping Math * Copper Brazing
& Oxy Act. Welding * Piping Drawing * Gas Distribution * Drainage * Water
Distribution * Advanced Math & Builders Level * Trade Related Science * Service &
Repair * Fixtures & Controls * Rigging * Arc Welding & Advanced Arc
Welding * Plumbing Code I * Design ,Layout & Estimating * Solar &
Plumbing Modules * Computer Literacy * Computer Aided Design * Medical Gas
Installer & Brazing * Plumbing Code II (NITC Journeyman Exam &
Certification.) * Foreman
Training
Steamfitter / Pipe fitter 5 Year
Curriculum
Orientation * First Aid & CPR Cert. * Use
& Care of Tools * Basic Piping Math * Drawing I & Drawing II * Advance Math
& Builder's Level * Copper Brazing & Oxy-Act. * Welding * Trade Related Science *
Rigging * Pneumatic Controls * Heating I & Heating II Hydronics *
Refrigeration & Air Conditioning I * Instrumentation * Arc Welding I &
II * Arc Welding III & IV * Arc Welding V * Computer Literacy * Computer
Aided Design * Start-Up, Test & Balance * Electronics & Energy
Management. (NITC Journeyman Exam and Certification) * Foreman Training
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