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employer trustee for the Alaska Laborers Construction Industry Training Fund. These days, Acme Fence employs 27 people. UAA’s Construction Management program graduates fi rst women Lynnette Warren worked as a journeyman carpenter for a dozen years before a neck and back injury from an auto accident forced her to use her experience without being the person swinging the hammer or pouring the concrete. Through the state’s vocational rehabilitation program she enrolled at UAA and eventually became one of the fi rst two women to graduate from “I do think that more women should get into the trades. It is a challenging career and provides excellent compensation for your efforts.” – Lynnette Warren the new two-year construction management degree. Dorothy Underwood completed the program with Warren. Warren said she plans to continue in the program and become one of the fi rst graduates in the newly implemented four-year degree program in May of 2008. She was a young woman of just 28 when she entered the apprentice program in 1989. “I got tired of working my butt off for $9 an hour,” Warren said. “What I’d make in the six-month construction season was more than I could make working all year-round.” These days she’s working as a construction management intern with Alaska Interstate Construction. Warren said she highly recommends UAA’s construction management program. She also is an AGC scholarship winner. “I do think that more women 48 The Alaska CONTRACTOR Fall 2006
should get into the trades,” she said. “It is a challenging career and provides excellent compensation for your efforts.” Women in male dominated fi elds must make the most of opportunities and overcome challenges head-on, Warren said. “By being pro-active the women that have been in the trades are making things better for those now entering. Acceptance is more widespread and is continually getting better.” Looking for a few good women When a dozen women completed a three-week operator’s class offered by Alaska Works Partnership’s Women in the Trades program near Palmer this summer, Betty Dibble was there scouting the fi eld of interested women. As the Employers Training Trust Coordinator for the Alaska Operating Engineers, she dispatches apprentices across the state. “I recruited one woman and I have my eye on three more,” Dibble said. Like the other apprentice programs, the operators accept applications once a year for apprentices, she said. Dibble graduated from the operator’s apprenticeship program and graduated to journeyman. When the job of apprenticeship coordinator came open, she applied and was hired. “So I know fi rsthand what it takes to be a good apprentice and how to succeed,” Dibble said. She has fi ve women operator’s apprentices working on a Dalton Highway job for Alaska Interstate Construction. “You go to work where the work is. It’s statewide,” Dibble said. She said the union has offered a pipeline training class since 1997. Dibble completed the training in 1998. “We have people who are trained to do the work,” Dibble said. “It’s looking good.” Defi nite progress Sandra Bartorillo came to Alaska in 1976, during the waning days of the oil pipeline. As one of two women accepted into the Carpenters Apprenticeship Training in 1977, she completed her training and became a journeyman. After 20 years working as a skilled craftsperson, she joined Cornerstone Fall 2006 The Alaska CONTRACTOR 49
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