“We Are Union: From the Front Lines” is an IUPAT-original documentary series on Labor’s fight to protect workers from diverse backgrounds, organize politically and repair America’s crumbling infrastructure. Weaving stories of rank-and-file members, union apprentices and organizers on the ground, the series gives an inside look at the work our movement is doing across the US and Canada.
WE ARE UNION!
What it Takes to Organize
Built to Last
What it Takes to Organize
Organizing is the primary objective of the IUPAT. It allows us to harness the full potential of all of our people in order to create one powerful and unified force. In this video, General President Rigmaiden shares three organizing strategies—bottom-up, top-down, and government affairs—and how the union is using these strategies to build our strength.
Built to Last
IUPAT workers have the training and accreditations needed to solve the infrastructure crisis. From Houston to Toronto, San Francisco to Boston, our work is not only done right the first-time and safely, but it lasts longer too. We all know the problems out there, but how can we get stakeholders to commit to invest?
Local Politics & Mobilizing
Inclusion through Community Partnership
Local Politics & Mobilizing
The IUPAT isn’t waiting around for action from any branch of Government; we’re putting feet on the street in our workplaces, neighborhoods, city halls, state and provincial houses to ward off the recent harmful policies of the White House and to fight for meaningful justice reforms. We call it mobilizing, and we’re going bigger than ever before.
Inclusion through Community Partnership
Diversity is one of our strongest assets as a union. But we can’t expect to diversify without having the backs of the communities we want to welcome in. By partnering with local communities and fighting for the issues that matter to them, the IUPAT exhibits solidarity in action.
Opportunity for All
Raising the Bar
Opportunity for All
The IUPAT’s Finishing Trades Institute offers a debt-free ticket to the middle class to anyone who’s willing to work hard and stick with it, no matter your race, your gender or your story. It’s part of what makes us union—providing for our brother and sister members.
Raising the Bar
We know IUPAT members are the best at what we do, but now we’ve got the certifications and accreditations to back us up. By partnering with third-party industry organizations and validators that share our commitment to quality, it gives contractors and end-users one more reason to go union, and it builds our market share.
The IUPAT Fights for All Working People
The IUPAT Fights for All Working People
Immigrants make up a large portion of the workforce we represent, and that’s why the IUPAT is committed to organizing all workers in our trades, regardless of their immigration status. It’s our numbers that gives us strength at the bargaining table. When all workers are brought into the organized labor movement, everyone benefits.