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Bricklayers & Allied Crafts Apprenticeship and Training Center for Rochester Minnesota

Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local Union 1 MN/ND Apprenticeship Training Center In St. Paul, Minnesota

Our Training Center occupies a 10,000 sq ft, it is located a quarter mile North West of The State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our classroom is 2,000 sq ft. and our workshop 8000 sq ft. We constantly strive to keep on the cutting edge of the industry by introducing newly developed materials and work processes to our Apprentices and Journey Level Workers. We have 1707 active Journeyman and 233 Apprentices. The Apprentices attend 144 training hours per year. Our daytime classes consist of Bricklayers, Blocklayers, Stone Masons, and Pointer, Cleaner, Caulkers. Our Evening classes consist of Tile Finishers, Tilelayers, and Terrazzo Finishers. In 2008 we had 10,196 total journeyman upgrade hours. In total over 20,000 hours of training was provided for Journeyman and Apprentices.

The programs we offer reach out to many different audiences within the industry. In May every year we hold a six-week prejob program which is held Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM until 3:30 PM. The goal of this program is to provide the attendees with basic skills to make them employable in the masonry trade. In the last couple years we have also been developing a youth outreach program with St. Paul Schools to give the opportunity for high school students to explore our union as well as affiliated unions. An annual masonry training workshop that is custom designed for the undergrad students at the University Of Minnesota School Of Architecture. It helps them become familiar with masonry materials design and build with them. We feel that our programs offer a wide variety of subjects that appeal to multiple skill levels of tradesmen and design professions.

Mark Wickstrom

www.bactraining.org/