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The IBEW represents workers in the electrical industry including construction, gas and electric utilities, telecommunications, railroads, and government agencies. Construction and residential electricians work in all phases of the electrical construction and service industry. Their worksites range from single-family residences to state-of-the-art industrial plants. Inside wire workers may install and maintain conduits, switches, converters, wire lighting, and complex systems incorporating computerization and high technology. Electricians work in the electric sign industry and increasingly perform work in the installation of fiber optics and voice/data/video equipment.

Headquarters:

900 Seventh Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

Phone: (202) 833-7000

ibew.org

The Teamsters represent 1.4 million working men and women in virtually every occupation throughout the United States and Canada, including many in the construction industry. Two-thirds of Teamsters members work in one of five divisions: warehouse, parcel, freight, public employees, and industrial trades. The public employees' sector is the union’s fastest-growing division. Teamsters members are also spread out geographically. The largest concentrations of Teamsters are in the regions in the central and eastern states.

Headquarters:

25 Louisiana Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20001

Phone: (202) 624-6800

teamster.org

BAC represents all skilled trowel trades workers, including bricklayers, tile setters, plasterers, cement masons, marble masons, restoration workers, and terrazzo and mosaic workers. Their work can be seen on many buildings, homes, stadiums, monuments, and landmarks throughout the United States and Canada. BAC craftworkers routinely demonstrate their talents at trade shows, union industries shows, and apprentice contests.

Headquarters:

620 F Street, NW

Washington, DC 20004

Phone: (202) 783-3788

bacweb.org

The IUEC represents the most qualified and trained elevator constructors in the world. Members assemble, install and replace elevators, escalators, dumbwaiters, moving walkways, and similar equipment in new and old buildings. Elevator constructors also maintain and repair this equipment and modernize older equipment.

Headquarters:

7154 Columbia Gateway Drive

Columbia, MD 21046

Phone: (410) 953-6150

iuec.org

IUPAT members work in one or more of several crafts: painting, wallpaper hanging, glazing (glass work), drywall and taping, floor covering, and sign and display work. Painters and paperhangers work in industrial, commercial, and residential settings, from bridges and ships to interior walls of office buildings and homes. Drywall finishers tape, fill in, and smooth seams in sheets of drywall. Glaziers prepare and install various kinds of glass, mirrors, metal framing, and doors/entrances to buildings. Floor coverers work with resilient floors, as well as carpet and decorative coverings. Members also perform exterior sign and display work, like standard billboards and lighted billboards. Other types of work are convention display and show decorators.

Headquarters:

7234 Parkway Drive

Hanover, MD 21076

Phone: (410) 564-5900

iupat.org

LIUNA is the most progressive, aggressive, and fastest-growing union of construction workers, and one of the most diverse and effective unions representing public service employees. LIUNA members are at the forefront of the construction industry – a powerhouse sector of 12 million workers producing five percent of our countries’ economic output.

Headquarters:

905 16th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006

Phone: (202) 737-8320

liuna.org

OPCMIA members represent skilled plasterers, cement masons, shophands, and associated members. Plasterers finish interior walls and ceilings of buildings, apply plaster on masonry, metal, wirelath, or gypsum. Bridges, canals, dams, reservoirs, roads, and many other engineering feats would be impossible without the skills of OPCMIA cement masons. Cement masons are responsible for all concrete construction, including pouring and finishing of slabs, steps, wall tops, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, paving, and other concrete construction.

Headquarters:

9700 Patuxent Woods Drive, Suite 200

Columbia, MD 21046

Phone: (301) 623-1000

opcmia.org

SMART members work in several industries. Sheet metal workers fabricate, install and service heating, venting, and air conditioning systems; blowpipe and industrial systems; metal roofing; coping and flashing; and stainless steel work for restaurants, kitchens, and hospitals. They prepare shop and field drawings manually and with computer-aided design.

Headquarters:

1750 New York Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20006

Phone: (202) 662-0800

smart-union.org

UA is a multicraft union representing plumbers and pipe, sprinkler and refrigerator fitters, and service technicians. These jobs require the installation, remodeling, or maintenance of systems that carry water, steam, air, and other liquids or gases necessary for sanitation, industrial production, heating, and air conditioning, and many other uses. Workers measure, cut, and bend pipe, weld, braze, caulk, solder, glue, or thread joints at residential and commercial jobsites.

Headquarters:

Three Park Place

Annapolis, MD 21401

Phone: (410) 269-2000

ua.org

Members of the Roofers Union install new roofs and remove old roofs using a variety of materials. Roofers install hot built-up and single-ply roofing systems on mostly commercial/industrial structures. Waterproofers install moisture-resistant products on below-grade structures and other surfaces to prevent water intrusion into buildings. The work is performed in all weather conditions. Members also operate a variety of mechanical and electrical equipment associated with the installation of roofing and waterproofing products.

Headquarters:

1660 L Street, NW, Suite 800

Washington, DC 20036

Phone: (202) 463-7663

unionroofers.com

IUOE is a progressive, diversified trade union primarily representing operating engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, and surveyors in the construction industry; and stationary engineers who work in the service industries and in operations and maintenance in building and industrial complexes. IUOE also represents nurses and other health industry workers, a significant number of public employees engaged in a wide variety of occupations, and several job classifications in the petrochemical industry.

Headquarters:

1125 17th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20036

Phone: (202) 429-9100

iuoe.org

The Boilermakers are a diverse union of workers in construction, maintenance, manufacturing, professional emergency medical services, repair, and related industries. Boilermakers build and repair ships, fishing boats, ferries, barges, cranes, boilers, tanks, pressure vessels, plate and structural fabrications among other things. These skilled workers often use acetylene torches, power grinders, and other equipment for welding, burning, cutting, rigging, layout, and bolting. It’s hard work, and heavy lifting and dedication to the craft are required.

Headquarters:

753 State Avenue

Kansas City, KS 66101

Phone: (913) 371-2640

boilermakers.org

Members of this union apply insulation to pipes, tanks, boilers, ducts, refrigeration equipment, and other surfaces requiring thermal control of temperatures. The responsibilities of these mechanics, improvers, and apprentices also include the manufacture, fabrication, assembling, molding, erection, spraying, pouring, mixing, hanging, preparation, application, adjusting, alteration, repairing, dismantling, reconditioning, corrosive control, testing, and maintenance of heat or frost insulation. Workers also handle insulation materials made of fiberglass, rubber, calcium silicate, and urethane. Asbestos workers do the removal of asbestos-containing material.

Headquarters:

9602 Martin Luther King Highway

Lanham, MD 20706

Phone: (301) 731-9101

insulators.org