PHOTO: Laborers' instructor Joel Kubilis with UCA pre-apprentices.
The Union Construction Academy has began training a new cohort of workers in Portland to prepare them for union registered apprenticeships and great careers in the trades. The new group includes workers from several countries including the US, Somalia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville.
The UCA is a partnership between the Maine AFL-CIO, Maine Building Trades Council and the New England Laborers Training Academy designed specifically to prepare a diverse workforce to graduate into registered apprenticeship programs as union carpenters, electricians, elevator constructors, ironworkers, insulators, laborers, millwrights, plumbers and pipefitters, sheet metal workers, and more. The program is supported from a contract with the Maine Department of Labor. Visit our website for more information!