Benefits

BENEFITS PROVIDED APPRENTICES

VETERAN’s BENEFITS: Apprentices who are veterans and enrolled in registered and certified programs are eligible for Veterans Administration training allowances.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Apprentices who may become unemployed due to shortage of work in their respective trade may be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits during their period of unemployment.

EARNINGS AND FRINGE BENEFITS: Wages of the apprentice vary in a small degree from craft to craft, no attempt is made to state each crafts beginning wages as new contract provisions are negotiated and become effective, generally every year. The beginning wage of an apprentice is based on a percentage of the rate paid a journeyman. As their training and work experience proceed, apprentices receive pay increases. Such increases usually become effective after 1,000 hours of employment, progressively approaching the journeyman rate. A variety of benefits accrue to union members under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. These benefits provide health and life insurance, medical care, pensions, etc., and are called "Fringe Benefits”. These benefits are paid out of a trust fund to which the employer contributes on an hourly basis.

DISCRIMINATION: Multi State Iron Workers Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee is dedicated to the ideals of Equal Employment Opportunity with selections made on the basis of qualifications alone without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, or occupationally irrelevant physical requirements in accordance with objective standards which permit review after full and fair opportunity for application and; furthermore, the sponsors are party to an affirmative action plan approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.

UNION MEMBERSHIP: Generally, apprentices become union members at the start of the probationary period and then gain the benefits of union membership

1. Apprentices will make journeyman scale after they have completed three years of training and pass the journeyman exam.

2. The apprentice is an employed worker; the contractor is the only one who creates the job for an apprentice. The union does not employ apprentices.

3. They are paid good wages and full benefits while learning the skills of the trade and are not cheap labor.

4. Their rate of pay increases with knowledge and ability.

5. Offers opportunity for continued wages and job security upon completion of training.

6. The apprentice becomes self-reliant at a comparatively early age.

7. Imposes no financial burden to their parents or community.

8. Provides classes to learn the theory of their trade and those techniques, which cannot be taught economically at the job site.

9. Their instructors are capable, practical journeymen selected from the industry by the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee.

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