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Training Only the Best
& Most Highly Skilled Masonry-Trowel Trades Craftworkers
Fighting For Our Members
– On and Off the Job !
Professional Craftworkers
Serving 26 New York Counties and the State of Vermont
BAC2NY/VT Members
Represent the Best in the Masonry Industry

On Tuesday retired BAC Local 2 member Dave Johnson & his wife Linda lost there home to a fire. Dave & Linda’s house was a total loss.
We will be taking donations at all of our upcoming Christmas parties to help our brother and his family out. Anything that you can do to help would be greatly appreciated.

For those of you who are willing or able this holiday season, please donate through PayPal. PayPal is an easy and secure platform that does not charge to use this service or take a portion of the donated money! You can create a PayPal account (easy and free!) and use this link to donate: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8kDHOmUbaL

2021 U.S. Bates Scholarship program is now accepting applications for the 2021 competition. Every year the program selects three students to receive a stipend of $5,000 per year for up to four years.

To be considered for the 2021 U.S. Bates Scholarship, a student must be the child or stepchild of a U.S. member in good standing of a BAC Local, and plan to enter college in the fall of 2021. Students must plan to take the standardized “PSAT” exam in October 2019.

To learn more and apply online, please visit: https://bacweb.org/bac-journal/us-bates-scholarship.

To help all interested in the scholarship navigate the application process, we have created a page of frequently asked questions (FAQs) for your reference.

If you have questions not answered in the FAQs about the scholarship or the application process, please call BAC at 1-888-880-8222, ext. 3887.

The application deadline is March 31, 2020.

Fraternally,

BAC Secretary-Treasurer Tim Driscoll

The Winter/Spring Training Schedule for IMTEF is now available

on the www.Imtef.org/calendar/ website. Local 2 Members can contact Matt Zink to sign up for classes. Classes fill up quickly.

BAC Local 2 NY/VT Training Schedule 2019-2020 Winter/Spring

All classes require sign up for the class including Journey workers. The sign-up deadlines are 1 week prior to the class start date. Contact Matt Zink for information and to sign-up.

Course Location Date Time

Blueprint Reading (basic)   Albany/Syracuse   12/2/19-12/6/19   8a-4p daily
Forman/Mentor Training   Albany/Syracuse   12/9/19-12/11/19   8a-4p daily
Trade Math/Layouts/Bond Patterns   Albany/Syracuse   12/16/19-12/20/19   8a-4p daily
Level work/Leads/Arches   Albany/Syracuse   1/6/20-1/10/20   8a-330 daily
Basic Brick and Block   Albany/Syracuse   1/6/20-1/17/20   7a-330 daily
Structural Masonry and Flashing   Albany/Syracuse   1/13/20-1/13/20   8a-330 daily
Practical Wall Procedures   Albany/Syracuse   1/20/20-1/24/20   7a-330 daily
Pointing Patching Replacement   Albany/Syracuse   1/20/20-1/24/20   7a-330 daily
Caulking   Albany/Syracuse   1/27/20-2/7/20   7a-330 daily
Plaster and Plaster repair   Albany/Syracuse   1/27/20-2/7/20   7a-330 daily
OSHA-30/Silica Awareness   Albany    2/24/20-2/28/20   TBD
OSHA-30/Silica Awareness   Syracuse   3/23/20-3/27/20   TBD
Pre-Job Brick Class   Albany/Syracuse   2/10/20-5/15/20   M-F 7a-330p
Pre-Job Tile Class   Syracuse   2/10/20-5/15/20   M-F 7a-330p
Cross-Craft Familiarization Training   Albany/Syracuse   2/10/20-5/15/20   M-F 7a-330p
Concrete form & pour walk behind and rider training   Albany/Syracuse   week of 4/20-4/25 weather permitting   7a-330 daily
Swing Scaffold Training    Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
Boom Lift Card Training and Certification   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
Fall Protection (Bowie Instructor)   Albany/Syracuse   3/9/19-3/12/19 and 3/16-3/19   TBD
JAHN/Edison/Comproco/Lithomax (Bowie Ins)   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
Harassment Training   Albany/Syracuse   1/11/20, 1/25/20, 2/12/20, 3/6/20   TBD
First Aid/CPR Training   Albany/Syracuse   3/6/2020   TBD
Confined Space Training   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
HAZWOPER Training   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
ACI Certification (concrete)   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
ACT Certification (Tile)   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
MSHA part 46 (Bowie Instructor)   Albany/Syracuse   TBD   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Albany   12/13/19, 1/11/20, 2/7/20, 3/20/20   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Glens Falls   TBD   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Syracuse   TBD   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Watertown   TBD   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Plattsburgh   TBD   TBD
C.O.M.E.T. Class   Utica   TBD   TBD

More classes will be scheduled for the Spring. Check our website www.bac2nyvt.org and our Facebook page bac2nyvt for class announcements and schedules.

Apprentice Meeting to go over new training class procedures and new Blue Book Procedures (digital submission) for raises will be held on Friday November 2nd for the Capital Region apprentices. Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and Plattsburgh apprentice meeting dates are still to be determined.

Member Assistance Program (MAP)

Offering Real Help to BAC Members and Families

The Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers’ Member Assistance Program (MAP) provides confidential telephone crisis intervention, referral and information services to BAC members in the U.S. and Canada.

About MAP

MAP provides members with a place to turn for help in coping with personal problems that interfere with job performance or home life. MAP services are offered at no cost to active and retired union members and their families. Members’ privacy is fully protected.