Plumbing Apprenticeship
Program, Local 38
Organized Labor
May 2009
Instructor Dan McCormick helping Ron Wells with some math problems “I try to teach them where we came from,” McCormick states. With the modern tools and techniques, joining pipes together takes little of the physical skill it once required, but knowing how to lay out a run to meet the specifications of today’s complex and changing systems takes a lot of technical knowledge. “There is still a lot of manual work, but you won't make it just working with your hands. Now you have to spend some time in the office doing drawings.”