Funders Learning Session: Minnesota Labor Movement and Training Centers Tour

Join the Minnesota Climate Table to learn more about Minnesota's labor movement, priorities, relationship to climate justice, and how we can collaborate more effectively.

This learning session includes a tour of two training centers: The Carpenters Training Institute and the Saint Paul Pipefitters Training Center. Minnesota's building trades unions spend tens of millions of dollars annually on apprenticeship training programs to teach industry entrants how to become professional craftspeople. Understanding their training programs can help shed light on and shape our understanding of unions' policy priorities, how they adapt to changing industries, how they wrestle with racial equity, and much more.

We will tour an active apprenticeship training center, listen to presentations by several local unions on how their unions interact with the fight to address climate change, ask questions, and enjoy an informal lunch together.

Agenda

9:30-10 AM: Panel Discussion moderated by Kyle Makarios

10:30 -11:30 AM:  Tour at the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters, 710 Olive Street, Saint Paul

11:30 AM- 12:15 PM:  Lunch

12:30-1:00 PM: Tour of the Saint Paul Pipefitters Training Center, 1301 L'Orient St, St. Paul, MN 55117 (6-minute drive from the previous location)

1:00-1:30 PM: Conversations with the Pipefitters Training Center

1:30-2:00 PM: Wrap-up

Registration Information: Please register here by July 31. Questions about the event can be directed to Sarah Hernandez and Tenzin Dolkar.

This event is hosted by the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota Climate Donors Table and the Minnesota Council on Foundations.