Pete Ielemini, Executive Director, Mechanical Insulators Labor Management Cooperative Trust | Jason Emerick, Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Ironworkers Local 112

America’s Work Force Union Podcast

English - January 25, 2023 21:55 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Executive Director of the Mechanical Insulators Labor Management Cooperative Trust Pete Ielemini appeared on the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and debunked myths surrounding the Federal Mechanical Insulation Act. He also touched on the need to invest in apprenticeship programs in order to perform high quality work on FMIA projects, if the legislation is passed.

Jason Emerick, Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Ironworkers Local 112, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed his early struggles as a non-union iron worker and compared it to his time as a Local 112 apprentice and journeyman. Emerick also provided insight on why the Local is seeing a higher quality of apprentice applicants.