Audra Smythe is one of just a handful of female pipe-fitters in the whole country. She learned how to weld as a high school ...

As technology manager at Chicago’s Pipe Fitters Local 597’s 200,000-square-foot training facility, Mike Zivanovic does his part to prepare Chicago pipe fitters for any and every job. Local Union 597 ...

Plumbers, truckers and pipe fitters are offering hiring and signing bonuses — and promoting their six-figure incomes — to entice high school graduates willing to do dirty jobs, but young people keep ...