As a follow-up to the “Fighting Right to Work” summit held in June, the California Federation of Labor will host the first in a series of webinars on August 25 to provide new information and tools as we collectively work to build stronger unions in the face of federal threats. The first webinar is on AB 119, […]

View your 2017-2018 Holiday Calendar. Click here for a downloadable calendar.    

View your 2017-2018 Holiday Calendar. Click here for a downloadable calendar.    

Being a member of UA Local 393 is not just about being a member of a union, it is about being an extremely proud member of one of the finest union families in America. It was great to have all of our families gather to celebrate our big union family. Check out all the photos […]

Brothers and Sisters: We all share in making our Union thrive. To help us make strategic and informed investments in time and resources, we want to ask your opinion on a few topics to build on our strengths and create additional opportunities to involve members and strengthen our Local. Please take just a few short […]

Important message from UA Local 393 Union Business Manager Bill Guthrie: Join your brothers and sisters on the picket line this Wednesday morning starting at 5 a.m. in downtown San Jose.

Scholarship applications for the Fall 2017 to Spring 2018 academic year are due on June 15. 

Steamfitter Union member for 21 years What inspired you to choose the building trades as your profession? I choose the trades because I felt that it offered me the best opportunity to provide a decent living for me and my family as a single parent. What have you learned as a woman in the trade? […]

Steamfitter Union member for 28 years How did you become a steamfitter? After having worked in marketing for several years, I discovered that I was not a desk job kind of person. The favorite part of my day was when I had the opportunity to work with engineering  and QA. Hands-on product development piqued my […]

Plumber Union member for 33 years How did you learn about the trades? I was an angry teenage feminist who had just gotten married. I went to my one and only National Organization for Women meeting, where I met Monica Amador. She had been hired to recruit women for the pipe trades. At the time, […]

Steam-Pipefitter Union member for 19 years How did you get into this job? I was living with my cousin, who was a second year plumbing apprentice, when I got laid off from a shipping and receiving job. He would talk to me all the time about how joining the union and learning a trade would […]

Steamfitter Union member for 33 years What inspired you to become a steamfitter? I had a chance encounter with a friend-of-a-friend, a woman who was working in a construction trade, and our conversation opened up a whole new world of possibilities. How has being a member of Local 393 affected your life? I went from […]

Plumber Union member for 35 years How did you choose this profession? I was always fixing everything around the house, and I was really good at it too. So when a counselor suggested working in the trades, I thought, “Sure. I would be making as much money as a man.” I was pleasantly surprised to […]

UA Local Union 393 has entered the 21st century with a new online dispatch system. We are one of the first UA Locals in the country to use this automated, time-saving process.

You can’t miss Martin “Mo” Salberg. 

It’s critical that we build an army of skilled and informed member leaders to grow and organize our unions and grow market share.

Fred Hirsch is a proud hellraiser and troublemaker. A member of UA Local Union 393 for more than 50 years, Fred reminds us that the fight for working people doesn’t end with good jobs, wages, and working conditions.

Brothers and Sisters, As we start a new year under a new American president and new community leaders, our union must fortify working families to combat the challenges on the horizon.

  UA Local Union 393 members completed more than 500 hours of political and advocacy shifts in 2016.

UA Local Union 393 proudly honors our retirees.

Each year the California State Pipe Trades Council offers educational scholarships for sons and daughters of UA Union members.

KT Urban was able to steal work hours from us with Silvery Towers this year, but we are not going to let them get away with their 23-story Greyhound development.

Help Santa Clara County families with limited resources have a safe, fun, uplifting afternoon of holiday happiness!

Working class people like ourselves need political leaders who will champion family supporting union jobs that employ our members. Here are the results of our endorsed candidates and propositions

On Thursday, November 10, we are mobilizing our membership

Congratulations are in order. Over 1,000 people turned out on Sept. 29 for the San Jose Campaign for a Secure Future action to demand that high-rise developers pay middle class wages and hire local.  

The UA Local Union 393 Family Picnic took over Sarasota Spring on June 20. Over 1,200 friends, family, members and allies enjoyed live music played by members, swimming, a chili cook-off, BBQ, a 30-ft. inflatable slide, games and face painting. Check out all the photos on Facebook!   

The several hundred UA Local 393 members who attended the contract ratification meeting at the Electricians Hall knew what was in front of them and were anxious to vote. No other UA local, IBEW local, or Sheet Metal Worker local contract negotiations in 2015 in Northern California leveraged better money on the table: A $3.50 an […]

We’ve set a national precedent. And it came through the hard work of our members. The Sunnyvale City Council voted 4-3 to become the first city to require apprentices from state-approved programs on “large” private-sector development projects. The City Council directed staff to bring them a completed ordinance that would implement their decision. While similar […]

Our apprentices serve a five-year apprenticeship to become journeymen plumbers, steamfitters, and HVACR service technicians, working during the day and attending class two nights a week. No small achievement. Congratulations graduates! Refrigeration Roberto R. Arellano Shane T. Davis David J. Romero Scott A. Bedwell Thomas Cale Fisher Philip E. Ruiz Bryan M. Blakenship Mitchel J. […]