Semper, 42, of Tempe, is in a five-year apprentice program training to become a journeyman pipefitter and welder in the semiconductor industry through U.A. Local 469, a trade union. She started at ...

The program is designed for students who want to become journeyman plumbers, pipefitters or HVAC service technicians. PPATKS sets them up with a job while they complete the certification process.

Apprentices work side-by-side with a journeyman plumber and pipefitter. It might be in residential construction and plumbing repair or pipefitting in a large electrical powerhouse, Bennett said.

Trained as journeyman pipefitter, she has worked in engineering and construction for many years throughout Alaska and in Moscow, USSR. Proud parent of two accomplished young women, she is happy in ...

“We should get first consideration because we built it, and we’ve earned it,” said Troy Knipple, a journeyman pipefitter from Regina. Knipple has spent his entire life in Saskatchewan and ...