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Training Fund Offers Local 32BJ Members Chance for Advancement

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 7/30/19

Robert Stokes, a veteran instructor in refrigeration and air-conditioning installation and repair, has worked at several technical schools since he began teaching in 1985. But only one of them became his home: Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ’s Training Fund.

Last year, more than 20,000 of the maintenance workers, cleaners and other building-service employees the union represents took a class in the extensive program. About 90,000 full-time employees represented by the union are eligible to enroll in the training fund, which is collectively-bargained and funded by employers.

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