LIUNA Training and Education Fund is the training center of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), a construction industry labor union and a member the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). 3 LIUNA Training is also the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a division of the National Institutes of Health. These grants have gone to support LIUNA Training’s Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and its HAZMAT Disaster Preparedness Training Program (HDPTP) and to establish an Ebola/Infectious Disease (EID) program. 9
Funding
LIUNA Training receives grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to support its Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP) and its HAZMAT Disaster Preparedness Training Program (HDPTP). Additionally, NIEHS made grants to LIUNA Training to establish an Ebola/Infectious Disease (EID) program, for training emergency response, demolition, construction, and environmental remediation workers. NIEHS intends to use the LINUA network of facilities for training government workers including National Guard personnel, janitorial staff in government buildings and airports, sanitation workers, and environmental services workers at hospitals. 3
References
- “LIUNA Structure.” Laborers’ International Union of North America. Accessed July 30, 2020. https://www.liuna.org/liuna-structure.
- “About.” LIUNA Training and Education Fund, 2020. Accessed July 30, 2020. https://www.liunatraining.org/about/.
- LIUNA Training and Education Fund, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Part VIII, Line 1b.
- “LIUNA Training and Education Fund.” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Accessed July 30, 2020. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/awardees/lagc/index.cfm.
- “Terry O’Sullivan, General President.” Laborers’ International Union of North America. Accessed July 22, 2020. https://www.liuna.org/general-president.
- “Armand E. Sabitoni, General Secretary-Treasurer & New England Regional Manager.” Laborers’ International Union of North America. Accessed July 22, 2020. https://www.liuna.org/armand-e-sabitoni.
- “General Executive Board.” Laborers’ International Union of North America. Accessed July 22, 2020. https://www.liuna.org/general-executive-board.
- “Jon “Rocco” Davis.” International Accreditation Service. Accessed July 30, 2020. https://www.iasonline.org/team/jon-rocco-davis/.
- LIUNA Training and Education Fund, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Part VII, Section A, Line 1a.