The Tri-County Building and Construction Trades are looking for the next generation of building and construction workers.
The Akron Meet the Trades Expo is designed to inform students and the public about the different fields within the Tri-County Building and Construction Trades and the opportunity for tuition-free education through Building Trades apprenticeships.
Akron Meet the Trades Expo
Monday, May 13, 2019
High School Student Session: 10 a.m. to noon
Adult Session: 1pm to 3 pm
Akron-Summit County Public Library Auditorium
60 S. High St. Akron, Ohio
Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan and Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro will open the morning and afternoon sessions by discussing the role the Building Trades play in economic and workforce development in the Akron region. After the presentation, attendees will have the chance to watch demonstrations and talk with representatives from 12+ Building and Construction Trades.
The Akron Meet the Trades Expo is a chance for the community to meet and talk with union electricians, painters and glaziers, iron workers, operating engineers, bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers and pipefitters, sheet metal workers, plasterers and cement masons, heat and frost insulators, teamsters and elevator constructors about careers in the Akron region’s Building Trades.
The following Akron-region Building Trades unions will be at the Expo:
Electricians Local #306
IUPAT District Council No. 6 – Glaziers Local #1162
IUPAT District Council No. 6 – Painters Local #841
Iron Workers Local #17
Operating Engineers Local #18
Bricklayers #7
IKORCC / Carpenters #285
Plumbers & Pipefitters #219
Sheet Metal Workers #33
Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons #109
Elevator Constructors #45
Heat & Frost Insulators
Teamsters #348
