BAC Code of Conduct: A Commitment to Quality, Dependability, and Value

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Statement #3: ‘The Finest, Most Comprehensive Masonry-Trowel Trades Training’

Statement #3 states that members, contractors and officers will “Work Better because I have received the finest, most comprehensive masonry-trowel trades training in North America.”

Members

1. Participate in training programs offered through the Union and IMI to upgrade or increase skills, including upgrade programs, safety training, and special certifications.
2. Follow work and safety practices learned through apprentice, safety, and upgrade training.
3. Journey-level workers are obligated to mentor apprentices in order to transfer knowledge and skills.
4. Encourage apprentices to take advantage of all training and to learn from senior craftworkers.

Contractors

1. Provide foremen and other supervisory personnel with proper training, and encourage them to take advantage of training programs offered through IMI.
2. Use apprentices on jobs as provided in the collective bargaining agreement, adhere to apprentice ratios, and ensure that all apprentices receive adequate hands-on experience in the craft they are learning.
3. Encourage senior craftworkers to work with and mentor apprentices, and apprentices to take advantage of training and be receptive to advice from more experienced craftworkers.
4. Enable the workforce to take advantage of opportunities to upgrade their skills.
5. Utilize the Union’s apprenticeship and training system to ensure a qualified supply of skilled craftworkers, and to grow the unionized masonry-trowel trades industry.
6. Assign more experienced craftworkers to mentor apprentices.

Local Officers

1. Encourage members to take advantage of training opportunities, including becoming certified in new products and upgrading skills.
2. Make sure that all members have the opportunity to receive appropriate safety training, as provided by IMI, and adhere to safe work practices.
3. Notify members of training opportunities available through the Union through mailings, notices, meetings, etc.
4. Enforce apprentice ratios in the collective bargaining agreements.
5. Direct the Local Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee to adopt rules to discourage any form of “hazing” by one group of members toward another (ie., journey-level workers toward apprentices).