Building Trades Apprentices earn competitive wages while learning a craft; all while receiving industry-sponsored healthcare and retirement benefits from the first day in the program. Building Trades Apprenticeship is a way to...
Read MoreA Building Trades Apprenticeship Program is a hands-on college alternative. Apprentices earn competitive wages, healthcare, and retirement benefits while learning their craft. They graduate with no student debt and have a bright...
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More than 100 people attended the Columbus Building and Construction Trades Council free job fair...
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On May 12, The United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) Local 168 officially cut the...
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On June 29, the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council will host a free...
Read MoreBy Matt Szollosi, ACT Ohio Executive Director The Ohio Constitution requires the Governor and the Legislature to pass a balanced Operating Budget every two years. We are immersed in that process right now. The budget bill...
Read MoreOn June 15, the President signed an Executive Order “Expanding Apprenticeships in America” (EO 13801), stating “It shall be the policy of the Federal Government to provide more affordable pathways to secure, high-paying jobs by...
Read MoreThe Staff of ACT Ohio have been busy promoting Apprenticeship Programs around the state. In April, Legal Counsel Rob Dorans and Communications Specialist Chris Zimmer gave four presentations at two high schools – one in...
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Many of the state’s mayors gathered in Columbus on June 9, 2017 for a bipartisan conference,...
Read MoreIBEW Local 688 celebrated 100 years of service on May 18, 2017. Currently representing 170 construction electricians and 20 CenturyLink technicians, the local has members in Ashland, Crawford, Morrow, and Richland cunties and parts of Huron, Knox and Wyandot counties.
Members celebrated with a dinner on May 27, and by honoring Bob Hoover, their oldest member at 93 years old. Bob retired in 1989.
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