r/LIUNA

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I currently live in Phoenix,az and I have been trying so hard to find a decent job , but more importantly I have been on all the top sites for jobs and have dumped about 100+ applications, and resumes, and all I get is spam b.s and calls on jobs that don't seem right...I have always been a physical labor type of worker, started as a gopher at 12 in home construction framing and remodeling , and demo. From there farming landscaping where I fell in love with heavy equipment operation.Please can someone help me to get work in the trades , construction, roadway work , equipment operation labor . Union preferred, I have put in my paperwork for apprenticeship s but it's a wait r.n ... Any help is appreciated.. STAY BLESSED

20 years old

work for a more rare labourer job but it runs all year, i accepted the job even though shop is located about 1.5-2 hours from where i reside, only had 2 jobs out of town where i need to be at shop for 5am which requires me to leave at 3am that part i dont mind i signed up for it, most jobs are at least 1-2 hours from where i leave from which i also signed up for knowing how it would be, if i am driving to site or such as today i had to drive to the shop 1.5 hrs from where we were after driving 50mins to site leaving at 5:30 am should i set up any logs for future or any sort of compensation or should i just stfu and accept i got a job, first 2 weeks of this job was about 3 shifts=20 hours over two weeks, i had amazing hours over the 4.5 weeks of summer but for the last 2 weeks since end of summer literally nothing until friday and now it seems to be back on track this week oct 5th do i hold on and hope or contact my connections for better opportunities, i previously worked for canada nuclear under PWU but always wanted to be 183, want insight on what would be my best move for now. also do i go back for union training centre classes or wait for jobs in my current company like other workers suggest me too?.

sorry for long text but im young and want to build this life the best i can. thank you for any feedback.

edit: my car is at 240k km worried i cant keep doing this if it craps out need to know what best pathway would be, i’m about 15 min from nuclear reactor to my home and 40 min to another closest, love the job i work rn and dont want to leave but worried abt mileage and consistency.

I got a call from my B/A this afternoon asking me if I wanted to go up to Syracuse to work. I’ve been trying to go for some time now, however he said they won’t pay perdiem. I will however get journeyman pay as an apprentice but I’m still not sure if it’s even worth it considering I’m flat broke and I’ll have to pay out of pocket to stay up there. My way of thinking was that maybe if I went up and showed out for a month or two, maybe they would work something out? Lemme know what u guys think

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I’m not local by the way. I live in Buffalo and am a part of local 111. There’s a few guys I know up there getting the perdiem but it’s a small number and as I said I’m an apprentice just jumping on the opportunity hoping it turns into something