Next Membership Meeting:
Monday, May 12th, 2025: Special Regular Meeting – fund allocation of upcoming raise
The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States, Canada (UA), affiliated with the national building trades, represents approximately 355,000 plumbers, pipefitters, sprinkler fitters, service technicians and welders in local unions across North America. We also honor a federation agreement with both the Australian Plumbing Trades Employees Union (PTEU) and Irish Technical, Engineering Electrical Union (TEEU).
The UA has been training qualified pipe tradesmen and women longer than anyone else in the industry. We provide the premier training programs available in the industry today, including five-year apprenticeship programs, extensive journeyman training, a comprehensive, five-year instructor training program, and numerous certification programs. We help our signatory contractors grow their market share by identifying new opportunities, providing support and connecting them to the safest, most skilled and most highly trained workforce in the industry.
UA Local 162
“In the recruitment, selection, employment, treatment, and training of apprentices Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 162 Apprenticeship will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, Hispanic ethnicity, or age above forty years. The Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 162 Apprenticeship will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 30, and the equal employment opportunity regulations of the state of Ohio.”
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
JOB CALL NOTICE:
Please make sure your cell phone number is up to date in the MTP App, text messages for job calls can only be received from phone numbers registered to the app.
Please do not use work phone numbers since they change with your employment.
SAVE THE DATE:
Annual Picnic – Sunday August 17th, 2025, 12:00pm to 9:00pm (lunch will be served 12:00-4:00) at the Dayton Firefighters Activity Center 3616 Needmore Rd, Dayton, OH
NEW JOB CALL PROCEDURE:
Click here to view instructions
UA SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION:
Deadline June 12, 2025!! For members, spouses, children and grandchildren attending or planning to attend college in the Fall of 2025. Apply online click here. View guidelines and paper application click here.
UNEMPLOYMENT PROCESS UPDATE:
Members are no longer required to call the hall to ask for a union verification letter to be sent to Unemployment. Please see the attached information detailing their updated process.
Union Verification _ Overview 2024.pd
UA PALS – Peer Allies For Life Success (Eliminating the stigma associated with mental health and Addiction)
UA Pipe PALS – Peer Allies for Life Success – United Association
Interactive UA Map:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/6aa24a87-10b0-4d97-9dcf-7a76124959bc
Community Resource Phone Listing.pdf
2024 Election Results:
OfficialCertificationofElectionUA162.pdf
UA National Pension Phone Number: (800) 638-7442
Apprenticeship News:
Applications accepted January 7th-9th, 2026. See apprenticeship tab for additional information.
Local 162 Jurisdiction Counties:
Montgomery, Greene, Preble, Darke, Miami, Clinton, Fayette, Clark and Champaign.
50 Years of Membership:
Congratulations to our Lifetime Members:
2025:
Donald Amann, Gregory L. Atkins, Richard Beisel, Keith Huysman, Alvin M. Martin, Stephen Mcginnis, Kenneth Spicer, Mark Starry, John Vaughan Jr.
2024:
John Kindell, Hobert Kendrick, Jerry Boyer, Larry Newsome, Jon Frecker
Deceased Members
Our deepest condolences to the families of our deceased:
2025:
Louis Bubnick Sr., Jerry Lee, Robert Mason, Richard Stultz
2024:
Lamont Dennis, Zachary Atkins, James Key, Jason Cumpian, Larry Inman, Mark Conwell, Dale Griggs, Wayne Mitchell
2023:
Gerald Peacock, Stephen Seitz, Robert Wise, Lloyd Bennett, Bobby Marcum, Robert Wise, Ronald Carpenter, Ralph D Willis, Jr., Douglas Bush, Henry Robinson, Ralph Willis, Johny R Smith, Larry Fraley
The UA has been at the forefront of the fight for worker’s rights for over 100 years. Now, as we move into a new millenium we are faced with many new and imposing obstacles. To prepare our membership for the rapid advancements in technology and the way business is conducted, the UA has developed one of the most extensive training programs of any union in the world, spending more than $200 million dollars a year ensuring that our members are prepared for the future.