International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

South Coast Welding Academy has a new partnership with the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. If you are looking for welding work take a listen and this might help you out!

[leebarnhart]

I've been welding, machining, and fabricating for 45 years and never worked a day in my life. Just woke up and had fun all day and they paid me to do it. There is so much I don't know; but I do know it's been a good life! Thanks for what do for these young folks just starting to have Christmas fellas!

[Portarius]

Boilermakers are a tough breed. Heavy hitters with some slug baggage. I miss it at times. Buddy welding, rigging, demo! Such good times. I dont miss trying to crawl my way up and down a tray tower.

[dougwisdom]

BM Local 455! Been a Union BM FOR 30+ years. The trade has allowed me to put 3 daughter's thru college, as well as build a very nice retirement. America works best, when we say Union YES!

[michaelsmith-lfmm]

Got an early lay off on my first boilermaker job, Mr. Hughs here gave me the low down on some jobs and really helped me out. Never even met him, if you hungry, they will feed you son. Lol

[larrymasterspowerbuildingc]

Southcoast WElding Academy is not joking! Go fellas! Much love from Detroit!

[budowens]

Retired Boilermaker out of Local 83, retired at 55 years old, enjoying my pension.
I would recommend joining the Apprenticeship program, The sky is the limit with opportunities.

[keithmartinez]

I’m a graduated apprentice out of Houston Tx local union 74. Finally someone got a good idea and joining up with better welding schools.

[NighHawk]

18 year member Boilermakers Local 146 Alberta Canada! actually renewing my F3F4, carbon/SS Tig and CWB this week😎

[WarInHD]

This is pretty similar to the Votech I went to, we partnered with Ironworkers Local 584. I’ve been in for 7 months and it’s the most badass job ever, there’s no rush like it and I make pretty good money. You definitely gotta be able to travel, 3 months after graduating high school i moved out and had my own place, bought a 2014 Mustang GT with 8k miles, got engaged and having a baby. Long story short It’s definitely a good trade

[redbird]

I used to weld tubes out of Local 263 Memphis in the 70s-early 80s. Trained by TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority] My instructors were former moonshiners so we initially had to learn how a moonshine still worked .Basically those guys had gone from moonshining to working for TVA and were in their 60s when they taught us the trade.Many were in the KKK.I had a lot of fun down south as a young man down there traveling and welding.Wages were good .We were making more than doctors and lawyers at the time.17.85/hr when most the blue collar workers were making 10-12 hr.A 1 gallon milk jug of moonshine was 20 dollars.I remember getting on the elevators with an "A" cloth many a time .Stood for asbestos cloth.To keep the fire from going down thru the grating. Times have changed.

[nicksteen]

Lmfao. You see the look on his face at 4:00 when Hjalmar said "pipe" lol priceless

[kenyattarmdabeach]

I currently do security I'm 26 years old with a 1 year old son. Have no welding experience but welding seems cool to me. And I want to pursue this as a career any tips.

[patrickramsey]

Has our union really become so weak we can't even train our own guys? This is a sad moment for me.

[vangoghsseveredear]

Local 555! Best welders I've ever met were from my local

[r.d.]

That apprenticeship pay is going to have them hurting to find new guys.

[Boilermaker]

This dude sucks at selling the international brotherhood of boilermakers

[FatBoi]

I’m 22 years old don’t know wtf to do with my life tried college dropped out, worked in factories didn’t fit me, Nursing Homes didn’t fit work either, Dispatch in Trucking doesn’t pay well, I’ve been hearing about welding don’t know shit about it but seems cool and sounds like money to be made I’m interested anyone got links or stuff where I can get started in this!

[Awesomeification]

Hopefully this helps helps boost up members only had about 300 of us at vogtle until the cut us down to 125 in about 3 days when they got pipefitters like rats no shade to the fitters tho I know it’s the ppl upstairs doing but they still push the boilermakers out of there

[nelsonalves]

Some foreman are overpaid. Like the useless Pierre Mazerolle who got his job because of his brother and Brandon Tremblay who skipped being a journeyman and went straight to foreman cause step daddy works in the office for aptim. Very unsafe. Alberta, Local 146. Extreme nepotism and they will kick you out for making known the supervisory incompetence.

[raulguerra]

Remind me again.... isn’t a welder and boilermaker two different trades?