Best way to go about leaving the union?
Hey guys, I’m a 19 year old Pipefitter apprentice. I feel like this is not the path that I want to go down. I am a father taught welder, and was told that if I could obtain the certifications, I would be a welder on the job. (My father was a boiler welder, and became a CWI when I was about 10. )
Fast forward to my first month in, I had not been called to the training center for a weld test or anything. My training coordinator told me that it would be a minimum of 2 years for me to be able to weld, and that was if I had prior experience such as trade school, or weld certificates, so it’s now looking like 3 years.
I have been thinking about bills mostly to keep me working, and recently I was laid off in November. Luckily I sat my bills up to where I could afford to be laid off roughly 6 months on unemployment. Due to lack of work, and me not getting unemployment, I’m risking going bankrupt at 19 if I wait another month to go to work.
They have been very unhelpful in the sense of getting me out working, and I am tired of waiting. I have been told I am the first person on the list to go back to work, but yet haven’t gotten a single call in 3 months when “business is booming” and they’re,”Hurting for apprentices”
How do I go about requesting to close my books? Also, I need a refreshment on what the scholarship contract handicaps me to in other jobs?
I am not trying to knock the union down as I think it is a beautiful thing. But I do not like the path I am going down currently.
Hey guys, I’m a 19 year old Pipefitter apprentice. I feel like this is not the path that I want to go down. I am a father taught welder, and was told that if I could obtain the certifications, I would be a welder on the job. (My father was a boiler welder, and became a CWI when I was about 10. )
Fast forward to my first month in, I had not been called to the training center for a weld test or anything. My training coordinator told me that it would be a minimum of 2 years for me to be able to weld, and that was if I had prior experience such as trade school, or weld certificates, so it’s now looking like 3 years.
I have been thinking about bills mostly to keep me working, and recently I was laid off in November. Luckily I sat my bills up to where I could afford to be laid off roughly 6 months on unemployment. Due to lack of work, and me not getting unemployment, I’m risking going bankrupt at 19 if I wait another month to go to work.
They have been very unhelpful in the sense of getting me out working, and I am tired of waiting. I have been told I am the first person on the list to go back to work, but yet haven’t gotten a single call in 3 months when “business is booming” and they’re,”Hurting for apprentices”
How do I go about requesting to close my books? Also, I need a refreshment on what the scholarship contract handicaps me to in other jobs?
I am not trying to knock the union down as I think it is a beautiful thing. But I do not like the path I am going down currently.