Working together, we can advance the industry.

Good partnerships strengthen all involved. They enhance training effectiveness, build capabilities, create opportunities, promote programs and provide access to expertise. With our membership's needs as a priority, we seek out and build partnerships with industry, professional and community organizations, government agencies, and education institutions and professionals.

We advance industry and workforce development by partnering with signatory
contractors of the Associated General Contractors.

Working with employers, we identify training needs, worker skill sets, and emerging industry trends to guiding training development.

Partnerships enable us to better educate constituents and promote new initiatives such as weatherization and green construction courses.

We are an approved education provider for the US Green Building Council (USGBC). We work with them to promote green building education and training by participating on the Education Development and Training Committee. By working with the Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations, we advance the pursuit of good jobs, a clean environment and a green economy. LIUNA Training also serves on BGA's Education Innovation, Learning and Training steering committee for the 2010 Good Jobs Green Jobs conference.

We are approved and certified by industry partners to train both instructors and workers in specialty skills, adding to our value as a comprehensive trainer for the trade.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) accredited LIUNA training as a Local Sponsoring Group, able to provide training and examinations for Concrete Flatwork Finisher and Technician certification. CPWR (the Center for Construction Research and Training, formerly the Center to Protect Workers Rights), a leader in improving the safety and health of construction workers, certified LIUNA Training to offer OSHA Construction Outreach Instructor and Disaster Site Worker Instructor certification courses. In addition, we continue to participate in CPWR's Mast Climbing Scaffold Committee.

Industry partnerships offer peer review and assist in training development.

Affordable Comfort Inc. (ACI) helps with piloting and observing our new residential energy efficiency programs. They also participated in instructor training for the LIUNA Training Weatherization program. ACI partners with many organizations like LIUNA Training to conduct national and regional conferences that bring building professionals together to advance building energy performance.

Cultivating government partnerships increases funding for training and curricula development.

NIEHS grants provide for Hazardous Waste Worker and Minority Outreach Programs and disaster site worker curriculum; OSHA Safety Training Grants allow for highway work zone, trench and excavation and disaster response training; DOE funding enables us to provide radiation worker training for DOE headquarters staff, DOE facility workers and federal law enforcement; U.S. Forestry Service funding enables us to deliver Job Corps young adult career training.

We can provide more robust training through Professional and Educational partnerships such as ACE, ICC/IAS and area colleges.

The result is college credit for some LIUNA courses, development of standards and accreditation for workforce training, school to work programs, and matriculation agreements. Another advantage of professional partnerships is access to industry and educational experts for the best possible worker and instructor curriculum and training.