May 15, 2009

2009 Canadian Boilermaker National Graduate Apprenticeship Contest to take place at Lodge 128

National Training Coordinator, Grant Jacobs, has announced the Sixteenth Annual Canadian Boilermaker Graduate Apprenticeship Contest is being held June 14th through 18th, 2009, in Burlington, Ontario. The practical testing will take place at Lodge 128's training place at Lodge 128's training center.

For an apprentice to be eligible to compete for the Canadian Boilermaker Graduate Apprenticeship contest the candidates must:

• Be indentured in the Boilermaker program;
• Not received more that one year of time credit prior to starting their apprenticeship in the Boilermaker program;
• Completed their final year of in-school training during the period of September 1, 2008 through 30, 2009; and
• Worked the required number of hours to complete their apprenticeship during the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 or have reasonable expectations to complete the required hours during the following year after completing the last period of in-school training.

2008 Graduate Apprentices who took part in the contest

This years contest will be the first time a local lodge has hosted the event at their own training center, in the past the contests have been held at one of our partnered local community colleges.

September 10, 2008

Lodge 128 - Labour Day 2008

Lodge 128 has a proud tradition of joining other Unions for a Labour Day parade throughout Ontario, since the 1880’s. 2008 was no different with the Boilermakers parading in the streets of Southern Ontario proudly showing the Boilermaker spirit.

Picture above shows Brother Don Ferguson and son William leading the way in Port Elgin, ON, on the bike and Brothers Howie Ferguson, Rick Renaud, Gord Campbell, Al Simons, Don L Ferguson, Rob Griffiths, Don Long, Glen Fegarous, Charles MacLean, Mike Thomson, Terry Keenan, Rodney Binns, Kris Mason, Brian Kane, Chris Palmer, Billy Power, John McQuaide, Keith Young, Bill Karcher, Steve Karcher and Andrew Boddy following behind.

Right to left: Brothers Terry Keenan and Chris Palmer joined the Lodge 128 parade in Port Elgin.

The Boilermakers and their families that participated in the 2008 Port Elgin Labour Day parade.