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Building Union Diversity Program, News

BUD program featured in theSTL

Story By Matt Sorrell
Visuals By R.J. Hartbeck

As seen in STL Made

When Aurora Bihler decided to pursue a career as a union iron worker, she didn’t know where to start. Originally from Joliet, Illinois, she came to the St. Louis area to study fine art and sculpture at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. After graduating, she searched for a career where she could put her creativity to work and get her hands dirty while still making a good living. The idea of working with iron was intriguing, but she had no family or friends in the construction trades to give her advice or direction on how to pursue that career.

“When I first got into the trades it felt like I was an anthropologist dropped into a foreign country,” she says. “It was like ‘How do I survive and respect this culture? I don’t speak the language, this is all new to me.’”

AURORA BIHLER, COORDINATOR FOR THE BUILDING UNION DIVERSITY PROGRAM.

Bihler’s experience isn’t unique. Each construction trade has its own apprenticeship process, and trade unions haven’t always had the reputation of being the most welcoming of places, with underrepresented minorities and women making up just 6 percent of the construction workforce. While Bihler did go on to find success in her career as an iron worker, she’s now part of the effort to make it easier for others to enter trade careers in St. Louis through the Building Union Diversity program.

BUD’s union construction pre-apprenticeship program was born in 2014 with the goal of getting more St. Louisans into the construction trades, focusing specifically in expanding diversity within those fields. It’s part of the Missouri Works Initiative, a nonprofit whose goal is creating economic opportunities for Missourians.

“It’s important for our union workforce to look like the neighborhoods they work in,” says Jake Hummel, president of the Missouri AFL-CIO (a federation of unions affiliated with the national American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations), which sponsors and supports the Missouri Works Initiative.

THE SPRING 2023 BUD COHORT VISITS TILE, MARBLE & TERRAZZO WORKERS – LOCAL 18 OF MISSOURI AFL-CIO.

To create the BUD program learning materials, several trade unions came together to craft a comprehensive curriculum. It covers basics in construction, math, blueprint reading and tape measure reading, as well as soft skills helpful to launching a successful career.

“The curriculum also covers some life skills about how to have a good attitude at work and how to present well in an interview,” says Megan Price, executive director of the Missouri Works Initiative. “Then throughout the cohort, we’re also taking them to the various apprenticeship training centers. And that is what students really find to be the most exciting part of the course.”

The six-week BUD program is held four times a year at no cost to students, and gives participants a taste of all the building trades so they can find which one suits them best. In addition to hands-on sessions with carpentry, bricklaying, electrical, sheet metal, plumbing and pipefitting, and cement masonry, BUD also focuses on wellness and personnel issues, with classes on subjects from financial literacy to fighting racial and sexual discrimination on the job site.

“The benefit of a cohort is that we continue to find that the model of bringing students together to go through this similar experience creates a lot of synergy, a lot of organic connections for people who are also starting their career and maybe encountering challenges,” says Price. In addition to building networking connections, the cohort also helps establish a peer support system – one way to help combat the high rates of mental health issues among construction workers.

MEGAN PRICE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MISSOURI WORKS INITIATIVE.

The first week of BUD is a full five days, but the remaining weeks are only four days long, giving students time to work or take care of getting the documents together they’ll need for their apprenticeship, like birth certificates and social security cards. Students also receive a $100 weekly stipend to help with expenses, and they’re supplied with necessary equipment like boots, high-visibility shirts and vests, work pants, ear and eye protection and a hard hat so they can hit the ground running once the program is completed. Transportation to the various training locations is also provided. Once a BUD graduate is accepted into an accredited apprenticeship program they get a $150 tool stipend as well.

Since its inception, 92 percent of BUD participants have graduated from the program, with 26.5 percent of those graduates being women and 79.2 percent being underrepresented minorities. One of those graduates is Raine McDevitt, who completed the program in November 2022.

“I went to a local private high school and they were like ‘You go to college, you get your fancy degree and you make a lot of money so you can give it back to us,’” says McDevitt. “I wish I’d known about BUD earlier.” McDevitt has a degree in graphic art and tried her hand in that field, then gave coding a shot, all the while supplementing her income with bartending and serving jobs. She heard about the program from a BUD graduate she met at a Women In The Trades meeting and decided to apply.

“I consider BUD one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,” says McDevitt, who now works as a tile finisher with Stutte Tile Flooring.

SPRING 2023 BUD COHORT.

Another crucial part of the program is to give students an overview of all of the trades so they can get a clear picture of which one would be best for them. Bihler plays a key part in mentoring the students to help them find the right career path.

“I think the BUD program did a great job of painting that picture overall,” says Shay Jones, who graduated from the program with McDevitt. “You feel informed and responsible for your decision.”

Jones spent years behind a desk in the home health care industry, while longing to be in a role where she could tap into her creative side. She found her fit as a glazier apprentice with Industrial Walls & Roof North America.

“I’m a baker, and caulking reminds me a lot of icing,” says Jones. “So I found it really easy to work with. I wanted to do something more hands-on, and something where I could see results of my work immediately, something more visible and tangible.”

Jones was also attracted by the competitive wages and benefits trade unions offer. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there’s about a $10,500 net difference between typical trade union and non-union annual salaries.

Once participants find a trade to pursue, often the biggest hurdle they face is finding out how to start the process to become an apprentice. One of the main focuses of BUD is to help students navigate those waters.

“I’d always been interested in the trades, but I didn’t know anything about that world,” says Jones. She feels BUD was invaluable in helping her figure out the necessary steps to successfully apply for her apprenticeship.

Bihler strives to help students realize they have what it takes to succeed in the trades, regardless of their background, and to advocate for themselves, using her own experiences coming up through the union ranks as an example.

“I felt like I was constantly standing up for myself or for other people who did not fit the mold,” Bihler says.

“Now I tell my students, ‘You need to set your limits and don’t let other people do it for you.’”

March 20, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly – September 11

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of September 11, 2022

OSHA & AFSP join forces on Suicide Prevention

Facing Suicide (PBS)

MH & Suicide in construction

A Mom’s mission

FDNY & 9-11

First responders & MH

Opioids Strain on First Responders

Telehealth ending access to vital SUD tool

Cannabis & Pregnancy

SUD / OUD Recovery Resources

Alcohol deaths & Rise in taxes?

Controversy: Harm Reduction Strategies

What’s as deadly as Fentanyl?

Nitazene: As powerful as Fentanyl?

Construction & Worker Wellness

New 988 sees jump MH calls

MH workplace tool kit

One PTSD story

Schools / COVID Funds / MH

Ketamine & Depression?

DEA & Online ADHD provider

5 MH habits

Thinking traps

Grief & Purpose

COVID Brain FogWalking & MH

Death & Brain Donations

Gut – Brain health

Chia seeds & Wellness

It’s OK not to be perfect

Quick Healthy Hobbies

Arthritis pain relief, naturally

Australia takes action against CTE

NFL helmet safety?

Unions / STL bucks national trend

Rail strike averted?

STL regional Apprenticeship Grant

Hazing (PBS)

Student loan forgiveness: Key dates

Upcoming Webinar:

MH & Wellness

Recorded Webinar:

CPWR & OSHA’s Suicide Prevention in the Construction Industry (Sept 2022)

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

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Worker Wellness Weekly – August 28

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of August 28, 2022

Psychosocial Wellness @ Work (ISO 45003)

Life expectancy (1)

Life expectancy (2)

Teen Suicide

Student Anxiety

Students / COVID / Math Scores

Ghosting & MH

Health Trackers

Telehealth / COVID / Overdose Risk

Inmates & Naloxone (Narcan)

FDA & Opioids Report

Alcohol Risk / Guidelines / Canada

Supplements & Reducing Stress?

Amazon & Health Care?

Dangerous Women

Auschwitz Memoir

K Burns & The Holocaust

The Passing of Barbara Ehrenreich

Let’s talk about Career-focused High Schools

Religious Leaders & Burnout

More on student loan debt

Upcoming Webinar:

Preventing Suicide in the Construction Industry

Recorded Webinars:

Lunch & Learn: Wellness

Mindful movement

Chair yoga

Power of Self Talk

Home cooking for the soul

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

September 7, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Week – July 24

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 24, 2022

Monkeypox in the USA

Monkeypox: A global health emergency?

COVID & Rest

Sleep Guide

Addiction and Recovery

More on the Opioids Debacle

Opioids Management Guidelines for Construction

SURVEY: Seeking worker input on Recovery Friendly Workplaces

Emotional Health / Trauma / Race

Kids / Race / MH

Ambient Stress & MH

MH & Doing nothing

Money & Stress

Memory loss

Breathing & Brain Health

Depression & What not to say

Offering condolences

Acts of kindness & Grief

Meaningful conversations

Proper Drug Disposal

How ASL has changed

STL Browns & Integrating MLB

Pope / Canada / Apology

Soccer & Head Injury

Upcoming Webinar:

Alzheimer’s

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

 

 

 

 

August 1, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly – July 3

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of July 3, 2022

COVID update (1)

COVID update (2)

Opioids update

OUD / CBT / MAT

988 update (1)

988 update (2)

MH & Policing the non-violent

When art therapy works?

Isolation v Loneliness

Social intimacy & Your brain

How to recover from workplace stress

School club for loss survivors

Kids / Coping / Trauma

Native Americans / Trauma / Kids (1)

Native Americans / Trauma / Kids (2)

Mass shootings & Evil

PTSD / Loneliness / Childhood trauma

School start time / Sleep / Kids

MH / Summer / Kids

Porn’s impact on the teen brain

Reducing stress w/o alcohol

Is anxiety a disease?

J Kander’s PTSD & Growth

Dementia update

ATLAS: Search for a treatment facility

Greedflation

The real deal in WFD

Another case of CTE

Upcoming webinar:

Emotional Intelligence

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

July 10, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 19, 2022

Reducing military suicides

Preventing ODs?

Resilience skills

Travel & MH

SUD bus in STL

Potent pot & Teens

Magic mushrooms & TBIs

MH cost calculator

Substance use cost calculator

Age / Stress / Immunity

Being single & Friendships

Nudity & Health

Kayaking as exercise

NFL & CTE research

Youth & Trade unions

Construction / Reward / Noose

Worker retention: 90-day rule

The summer of teachers calling it quits!!!

Upcoming webinars:

Chair yoga

Urban fishing

STL workforce report

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

June 26, 2022/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness Weekly

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 12, 2022

Helping a loved one / Suicide

Males & Suicide

More on 9-8-8 (1)

More on 9-8-8 (2)

Safe consumption sites / OD deaths / Boston

COVID / Kids / Vax

Racial trauma & MH

Black fathers & MH

Hot temps & MH

Vagus nerve & MH

Speaking grief

College MH resources

Later start for high school?

Employers / Parents / School holidays

Summer & Better sleep?

Kids / Dogs / Stress

Yoga for beginners

Exercises & Your golf swing

Hospitals & Well-being

The tampon shortage

Homeless in Houston

Pet anxiety

Applying sunscreen

CTE & Military

AFL-CIO’s new leadership team

Rhodes scholar / Starbucks / Union organizer

Are workers already losing power?

Well-being & Remote work

Well-being deficit & Employers

After Jackie

Kelsie & Baseball

Is the world going hungry?

Assessing your social media habits

Your use of time

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

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Worker Wellness Weekly – April 17

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of April 17, 2022

Rise in STL’s OD deaths

IL & Fentanyl test kits

BA.2 is not over

Women in construction

MH & Medical staff burnout

Importing nurses

Referee shortage

How to be happy

Improving your MH

Signs for therapy

Tips to avoiding a bad day

Strong friendships

MH & Military

Military & MH

Teens / Earth Week / Eco-Anxiety

School attendance & COVID

Grief / Kids / COVID

Helping kids catch up

Women’s MH

Loneliness & Flow

Loneliness epidemic

STI testing & prevention

Gut health

Diet & Dementia

Foot health

Grief & Yoga

CBD & Anxiety

Domestic violence & Seeking help

WVa settles J&J opioids suit

Parents selling kids’ organs

LA & Homeless deaths

Shoes & Healthy households

College football & Brain disorders

Hearing & Concussions

Flower / Insect / Farmers’ lifeline

Starbucks (1)

Starbucks (2)

 

Upcoming webinar: Fall Protection

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

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Worker Wellness Weekly 4.10

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of April 10, 2022

 

COVID: BA.2 update

Menopause & Telehealth

MH & Drone strikes

MH & Police budget

MH & Screening kids (1)

MH & Screening kids (2)

Rise in child suicide

Homeless students in TX

MH / FL / Don’t say gay

Grandparenting & COVID

Sober pay app

Alcohol in the office

CBT / MAT & OUD

Birthing while Black

MH apps for you?

Your brain & Love

IBS / Anxiety / COVID

Depression & Turmeric

Eczema & Health issues

Chronic diarrhea

Your pet’s deadly kisses

Pet vets burn-out

Driving while high

Social media & Medical researchers

Is yoga good for you?

MH treatment now & then

Swearing in the office

MO prisons and coding

Ben Franklin pays if forward

STL Starbucks / Unions

 

Upcoming webinar: Harassment in the workplace

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

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Worker Wellness Weekly – April 3

For many decades, organized labor has played a key role in establishing minimum safety standards in the US workplace. These efforts have mainly focused on the physical aspects of safety (i.e., falls, chemical exposure, noise reduction, etc.). More recently, public health professionals have identified that in order to better protect workers, the workforce eco-system must address the whole person. To this end, a major goal of establishing a WWP is to ensure that all workers have access to timely information regarding their mental aspects of safety on the job and in the community. In so doing, we will offer programming and advice on issues related to work-life balance, wellness, and well-being.

As the WWP develops, we will seek partnerships with local community agencies so that programming can be tailored to local needs. It is our intention to have a presence in towns across the state as a means to deliver training and/or perform research that informs our future activities for the benefit of all workers.

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of April 3, 2022

MH struggles

MH & Kids today

MH: Student resources

MH: Students & Peer support

Fentanyl & US deaths

Fentanyl deaths on the rise

An addiction guide

Life after ODU death

CDC’s OUD rethink

Vets & Suicide

MH / Congress / Vets

Overlooking PTSD?

MH & Meds

Depression & Functioning

Mushrooms & Addiction therapy

Women & Anti-depressants

Memory & Forgetfulness

How to sign

Exercise: The right amount?

Post-COVID heart health

Tik Tok brain

Tik Tok & Girls

Teens & Sleep

Marijuana & Sex

MH / Music / Exercise

Spring & Self-care

Grief after suicide

Chronic back pain

Upcoming workshop:

Chronic back pain

STL Catholic teachers strike

KBJ: Our new SCOTUS justice

Baseball’s past & present

Slavery’s descendants

Older workers making a comeback?

Family caregivers’ challenges

Nurses & MH

China’s  white collar workers

China’s blue collar workers

Debate: Sports & Gender

Budgeting & MH

Socializing limits

Safe travels?

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

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