Trades &
Apprenticeships
What are Skilled Trades?
Do you enjoy working with your hands? Are you looking for a career? Do you prefer to work outdoors versus sitting behind a desk? Do you take pride in building beautiful, functional structures that last? If any of these options sound good you’ve come to the right place. The industry needs people like you.
Do you enjoy working with your hands? Are you looking for a career? Do you prefer to work outdoors versus sitting behind a desk? Do you take pride in building beautiful, functional structures that last? If any of these options sound good you’ve come to the right place. The industry needs people like you.
Trades 1.pdfTrades 2 .pdfBAY AREA
BAY AREA
Apprenticeship PROGRAMS
Apprenticeship PROGRAMS
Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
Do you need help getting into a union? These programs provide free, hands-on training for local residents to help them prepare for entry and success in union apprenticeship programs.
Do you need help getting into a union? These programs provide free, hands-on training for local residents to help them prepare for entry and success in union apprenticeship programs.
City Build Academy
Cypress Mandela Training Center
Diablo Valley college
Future Build
Ironworkers Pre-Apprenticeship
Los Medanos College
North Bay Trades Introduction Program
Richmond Build
Rising Sun Opportunity
San Mateo Trades Introduction Program
Trades Orientation Program
Carpenters Pre-Apprenticeship
Union Apprenticeships
Union Apprenticeships
Once you are in the apprenticeship training program, you are in the union: learning your trade from experienced workers on the job site and through formal classroom training. You are getting paid and receiving health and retirement benefits. You EARN while you LEARN - and the education is free!
Once you are in the apprenticeship training program, you are in the union: learning your trade from experienced workers on the job site and through formal classroom training. You are getting paid and receiving health and retirement benefits. You EARN while you LEARN - and the education is free!
Boilermakers
Bricklayers & Tilelayers
Carpenters
Cement Masons
Electrical Workers
Elevator Constructors
Heat & Frost Insulators
Ironworkers
Laborers
Plasterers
Operating Engineers
Painters & Allied Trades
Plumbers & Pipefitters
Roofers & Waterproofers
Sheet Metal Workers
Sprinkler Fitters
Stationary Engineers
Teamsters
Full UNION APPRENTICESHIP GUIDE
Full UNION APPRENTICESHIP GUIDE
This Guidebook will introduce you to the full range of more than 25 different trades to choose from, and the requirements and step-by-step process to get into each one.
This Guidebook will introduce you to the full range of more than 25 different trades to choose from, and the requirements and step-by-step process to get into each one.
UPCOMING TRADES EVENTS
UPCOMING TRADES EVENTS
SAN LEANDRO ADULT SCHOOL TEST PREP for Apprenticeships
SAN LEANDRO ADULT SCHOOL TEST PREP for Apprenticeships
Tips & Resources
Tips & Resources