BUD Recruits Second Class

Date Posted: March 17, 2015

Posted In: News, Workforce,

“Building Union Diversity” (BUD). a program designed to bring minority workers into the St. Louis construction trades is now recruiting its second class. Classes begin on Monday April 6. Interviews to finalize the cohort of students to begin on that date are tentatively scheduled to take place on April 1.

Persons who know of potential candidates are urged to encourage them to apply for the program.

BUD will provide pre-apprenticeship skills training for minorities, women and the long-term unemployed residents of the St. Louis region interested in pursuing one of many available careers in construction.

The training in the BUD program includes both classroom and shop training, and participants will earn national skills certifications as they progress through the training. Participating union apprenticeship training program providers include bricklayers, carpenters, IBEW electricians, ironworkers, laborers, operating engineers, and plumbers and pipefitters.

The BUD program brings together a comprehensive network of participating joint labor-management Construction Skills training providers, SLATE, the St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council, and the Missouri Division of Workforce Development (DWD).

Persons interested in participating in the program should contact the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE) at 1520 Market St., Suite 3050, St. Louis, MO 63103, telephone 314.657.3575 or the St. Louis County Workforce Development office at 26 North Oaks Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63121, telephone 314.679.3312.