Congratulations to our March and April, 2018 retirees: enjoy your well-earned retirement! You make us #uaproud. Know any of these members? Worked with them? Share a story on our posts on Facebook (March and April) or Twitter (March and April).  

UA Local 393 members have worked hard to make this happen. And I’m proud to report that last Tuesday night, we won big for working families in San Jose! The San Jose City Council passed a groundbreaking set of policies to raise job quality and create career opportunities in construction, Silicon Valley’s second-fastest growing industry. […]

Congratulations to our December, 2017, January, 2018, and February, 2018 retirees: enjoy your well-earned retirement! You make us #uaproud. Know any of these members? Worked with them? Share a story on our posts on Facebook or Twitter.

Do you have a child graduating high school, in community college or attending a 4 year university? If you are a member in good standing with UA Local 393 for at least one year, your child is eligible for a $2,500.00 scholarship. 32 college scholarships will be awarded to sons and daughters of members of […]

Check out all the wonderful photos from UA Local 393’s 2017 Retiree Dinner! Want to see more? Access all the photos here, just use the password: hay    

UA Local Union 393 Campaign for a Secure Future Toys for Tots Giveaway   Join local unions for the annual Labor Movement Holiday Party. Help Santa Clara County families with limited resources have a safe, fun, uplifting afternoon of holiday happiness by providing toys and volunteering.   SHIFT #1    Friday, December 15th from 8:30am-11am SHIFT […]

Honored to Represent You Brothers and Sisters, Thank you for electing me to represent you as your Business Manager. I am honored by this responsibility, and I will do everything I can to support you and our Local. I have been a member of UA Local Union 393 for over 20 years. During that time, […]

Improving Our Jobs and Communities Fighting for the future we deserve is much more than supporting candidates and measures on the ballot. Our Campaign For A Secure Future holds those elected officials accountable once they are in office. We have taken over 50 actions such as advocating at council meetings and speaking at community hearings […]

You have seen them on the job, worked beside them and maybe even brought a question to them. But who are the stewards of 393, and how can they help you? A steward is a journeyman on the job, like anyone else. He or she is doing the work of their peers, and has other […]

You might remember Daryl Peterson from your own time at the training center. Daryl has been training and teaching welders or students since February of 1969, and he’s trained thousands of apprentices in the skills they needed over the years. He started his apprenticeship in June of 1962, and has been making UA Local 393 […]

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This Tuesday and Wednesday join us at the Pipe Trades Training Center for a Blood Drive and Flu Shot Clinic. The first 20 people will receive a 393 yoga mat, and everyone who donates blood or receives a flu shot will receive a gift bag. When: Tuesday October 3rd, Wednesday October 4th 3:30 PM – […]

We are sending solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Texas as they deal with the catastrophic flooding. Members interested in supporting Texas UA Locals with financial contributions can contact Business Agents Al Tito Gonzalez Al@local393.org or Conrad Pierce Conrad@local393.org

BREAKING: A win for San Jose families! At the August 29th San Jose City Council meeting, UA 393 members and union brothers and sisters in San Jose showed up to advocate for the Museum Place Project’s Project Labor Agreement to ensure family-supporting wages on the project. The council voted unanimously to approve the project. We […]

San Jose City Council Vote When: Tuesday, August 29th at 3:00 PM meet up; vote at 5:30 PM Where: San Jose City Hall – 200 East Santa Clara Street, inside City Council Chambers What: The SJ City Council will vote on the Museum Place project being developed by Insight Realty in downtown adjacent to the Tech Museum. This large […]

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.