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We Offer a Range of Concentrations to Start Your New Career

Our training programs open the door to opportunity, helping apprentices and journey workers improve and add to their skills, advance their careers, and earn a superior wage with excellent benefits at no cost to our members.

W. PA Laborer demolition construction worker using a jackhammer to break up the dirt. Start your career in construction today.

Demolition | Deconstruction | Rehabilitation

Demolition, Deconstruction, and Rehabilitation is the dismantling, razing, destroying, or wrecking of any building or structure. 

 

Job skills include:

  1. Renovation Interior & Exterior

  2. Demolition

  3. Wrecking

  4. Burner

  5. Operation of Pneumatic Demolition Tools

  6. Rigging & Signaling & More

Deconstruction

Environmental

Our Environmental Remediation Professionals are dedicated and certified men and women that put their lives on the line to remediate hazards and respond to disasters to protect communities across Western Pennsylvania.

 

Job skills include:

  1. Asbestos Abatement (Certified)

  2. Lead Abatement (Certified)

  3. Hazardous Waste Removal (Certified)

  4. Containment Construction (Certified)

  5. Work Area Preparation

W. PA Laborers' Union certified asbestos abatement worker removing asbestos from a job site
Environmental
W. PA Laborers' Union Infrastructure worker tying rods on a job site

Infrastructure

LiUNA members help build Western Pennsylvania from our roads and bridges to our transit systems. 

 

Job skills include:

  1. Bridge Construction 

  2. Renovation

  3. Demolition

  4. Rigging

  5. Signaling

  6. Scaffold Building

  7. Tube and Clamp Scaffold

  8. Systems Scaffold, Building Frame Scaffold & More

Infrastructure

Concrete

Laborers are involved with most construction project phases, including concrete installation. Cement masons smooth and finish exposed concrete surfaces on projects such as sidewalks, roads, and bridges, specializing in:

 

Building Site & Construction - Masonry

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  1. Site Preparation

  2. Scaffold Building

  3. Estimating Masonry Materials

  4. Stocking Masonry Materials

  5. Mixing of Mortar and Grout

  6. Forklift Operations

  7. Direct Tending of Masons

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Building Site & Construction - Concrete Placement

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  1. Hose Operation

  2. Grading

  3. Mixing Concrete

  4. Placement of Concrete by hose, Wheelbarrel, & Powerbuggy

  5. Leveling, Shoveling & Raking the Concrete

  6. Concrete Vibrator Operator

  7. Site Preparation & Cleanup

W. PA Laborers' Union Concrete worker pouring concrete on a job site
Masonry
W. PA Laborers' Union Pipeline work installed in the ground

Pipeline

Our Pipeline Professionals use tools and heavy equipment to dig, repair, and maintain the area around pipelines and pump stations. 

 

Job skills include:

  1. Front End Pipeline Work

  2. Ground Surface Pipe Handling and Welding

  3. Pipe Handling In The Trench

  4. Coating Crew

  5. Back End Pipeline Work

  6. Pipeline Specialty Construction

Pipeline

Tunneling

Our Tunneling Professionals help build the underground tunnels needed for services such as rail lines and waterworks. They assist with excavating, supporting, and forming tunnels and shafts in the ground associated with the construction process to provide an underground space, tunnel, or shaft.

 

Job skills include: 

  1. Crane Safety

  2. Tunnel-Boring

  3. Concrete Work

W. PA Laborers' Union Tunneling worker looking into the tunnel
Tunneling

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