Our apprentices earn while they learn, working in the field while they train, with no tuition to pay. Combined with comprehensive upgrade training for our journey workers, this hands-on approach gives us an advantage when it comes to furnishing employing contractors with the most skilled, job-ready finishing-trades workforce available.

Painters & Tapers
Painters & Tapers

The Finishing Trades Institute of DC 14 Chicago is where labor and management work together to develop dedicated apprentice trainees into skilled, professional painting/decorating, industrial coating, and drywall finishing journeypersons for DC 14 and our signatory contractors.

These programs provide comprehensive safety and skill upgrade training for our journeypersons. The objective of each program is to provide signatory contractors with a qualified, highly productive, and safe workforce.

Glaziers
Glaziers

The Glaziers Union Local 27 Apprenticeship Program strives for excellence, molding individuals into superior craftsmen and craftswomen through focus on diligence, precision, and extreme attention to detail. We strive to be the best and aim to forge the future of glazing with an energetic, highly skilled, and dependable workforce.