Building Works is a pre-apprenticeship training that prepares interested candidates for careers in the building trades.  In partnership with the NYC District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College, the 3 month training is tuition-free and provides both classroom instruction and hands-on experience preparing you for success in a union apprenticeship.  Participants in Building Works gain experience  from a wide range of courses, including job readiness, industry related math, health and safety, as well as hands-on instruction in shop classes under the supervision of journey-level union carpenters.

Certifications received during the training may include:

• OSHA 10-Hour Construction Safety
• 40 Hour Hazardous Waste Worker
• Scaffold User

A first year apprenticeship in the Carpenters Union earns $19.95/hour while receiving on the job training and technical classroom instruction.   For more than a decade, Building Works has successfully trained hundreds of candidates most of whom have joined—and are completing—unionized apprenticeships...and are building careers in a skilled trade. Together we are helping to build the future of organized labor.

Candidates for the Fall 2015  Building Works Pre-Apprenticeship Training  must:

• Be at least 18 years of age at time of enrollment
• Have a High School Diploma or GED, and pass a basic skills test at 8th grade level
• Be either unemployed or under-employed
• Be physically able to work
• Be legally eligible to work in the U.S.
• Pass a drug test
• Commit to completing the entire, full-time, 3 month training with classes running from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm

Open House at Chinese - American Planning Council, 165 Eldridge Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10002

Monday, August 10 at 9:30 am.

No one will be admitted after that time.