Watch a video of pump expert Randal Therman telling why millwrights and their knowledge are important and why people throughout the pump industry need to be connecting with the millwright workforce.
Union millwrights from across the South and beyond will be needed to build the largest auto-production complex in Ford Motor Company’s history. Ford announced last year it will build the $5.6 billion project in Stanton, Tennessee.
The Western Region of the SSMRC is looking at expanded growth in both the power-generation and conveyor/distribution markets over and above the 2022 spring season growth. Multiple new construction and maintenance outages have been added to our work scope, including several airport expansions.
The first half of 2022 has been very busy. This is a great time to be a millwright as well as a contractor partner of the SSMRC.
The busy spring nuclear outage season presented a few challenges. With 12 turbine outages from February through April and a total call for just over 725 millwrights, we knew it would be a logistics hurdle.
Through our partnerships with contractors, we identify upcoming projects and inform our business partners of bid opportunities for those projects. I’d like to share with you here some information about projects on the horizon.
aluminum-recycling mill in Bay Minette, Alabama, will provide a wealth of opportunities for SSMRC partnering contractors and millwrights to install robotics and other equipment at a 3,000-acre site.
The political arms of the Southern States Millwrights and our parent organization, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, are working to stop illegal labor practices that give unscrupulous contractors and facility owners an unfair advantage when competing against law-abiding companies. These illegal labor practices include worker misclassification, tax fraud, workers’ compensation fraud, and more. One issue […]
“Our intent is to have one point of contact for owners, employers, and millwrights to address and resolve problems or concerns and streamline the process of getting proper manpower for outages during peak times of need.” –Wayne Jennings, SSMRC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Those were the comments in June 2016 announcing the opening of the Southern States […]
Our commitment is to provide an elite workforce committed to safety, productivity, professionalism, and training regardless of what industry we are working in. Our standardized training ensures that all SSMRC millwrights possess the same skill sets for all industries serviced across our footprint. As partners with the contractors who employ our members and the owners […]