Next Membership Meeting:
Monday, June 14, 2021: Regular Meeting
Monday, July 12, 2021: Special/Regular Meeting – Installing newly elects.
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
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
NOTICE: Next Apprentice application pick up announced for June 9, 10 & 11 7 am – 4:30 pm. See Apprentice page for additional information.
OfficialCertificationofElectionUA162.pdf
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United Association letter regarding the Cares Act:
UA_ CARES Act Summary of UI provisions.pdf
Recent mailings regarding covid-19 temporary changes:
Local 162 Jurisdiction Counties:
Montgomery, Greene, Preble, Darke, Miami, Clinton, Fayette, Clark and Champaign.
50 Years of Membership:
Congratulations to our 2021 Lifetime Members:
Robert Bowersock, James Conley, John Hirby, Jerry Reece, Frederick Riggs Jr., Dennis Schock,
Deceased Members
Our deepest condolences to the families of our 2021 deceased:
Earl Seippel, Earl Woolf, Rickey Fisher, Leonard Kuhn, Patrick Kurtz, Willborn Smith, David Deger
Womens Auxilliary News:
* Meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month.
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.