Career Connections

The Career Connections Pre-Apprenticeship Program lays the foundation for a bright, productive future for high school students. Created by the Carpenters International Training Fund, the program is employed in schools across North America to introduce students to the crafts and trade of carpentry. Young people gain the knowledge and skills they need to choose a career wisely and prepare for advanced training in a registered apprenticeship program. 

The North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters represents nearly 27,000 union members and their families from 39 locals in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

We are chartered by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC), one of North America’s first unions, and still one of its most vibrant. The UBC represents more than half of a million Carpenters, Floor Coverers, Lathers, Millwrights, Pile Drivers and Industrial workers in the United States and Canada.

As a union, we are dedicated to protecting and elevating the economic and social condition of all workers. We partner with contractors to provide our industry with the best trained, most productive and safest workforce available. The superior productivity and skills that our members bring to the jobsite reward them with pay and benefits that allow them to provide a better life for themselves, their families and communities.