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Kendall Martin of Iron Workers joined us on today’s show. image: https://awf.labortools.com/hubfs/Ironworkers-Featured-Image.jpg --- 1 min read Season 3, Episode 88 # NABTU offshore wind project will mean good jobs for Ironworkers [ awfblog ](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/author/awfblog) May 9, 2022 [America's Work Force Union Podcast](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/americas-work-force-union-podcast) [Ironworkers](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/ironworkers) ![Iron-Worker-Logo-Color](https://awf.labortools.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AmericasWorkForce/sponsor%20logos/Iron-Worker-Logo-Color.jpg?width=1000&name=Iron-Worker-Logo-Color.jpg)   Guest Name: --- Kendall Martin Guest Website: --- www.ironworkers.org Guest Social Media: --- [ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/unionironworkers/) [ Twitter](https://twitter.com/TheIronworkers) [ YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/UnionIronworkers) [ LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/iron-workers-international) Supportive Documents: --- Kendall Martin, General Vice-President of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Union, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed a Project Labor Agreement between the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and Ørsted to construct the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms using all-union labor..  The project covers all of Ørsted’s contractors and subcontractors, including iron workers, who will perform offshore wind farm construction from Maine down to Florida. The Ironworkers Union is extremely excited about this opportunity, Martin said. It is an exciting time for renewable energy, including offshore wind, and union leadership is doing everything it can to secure these jobs for members, he added. Many of these jobs will be onshore assembly and manufacturing jobs, he said. Members of the Ironworkers Union are at the forefront of the specialized training required to do these jobs, which is currently taking place across the Eastern Seaboard, he noted. Martin also talked about the jobs that will be created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the need to grow membership to ensure the Ironworkers Union will deliver on these projects. Recruiters are reaching out to technical schools and high schools, and doing everything they can to attract young people into their registered apprenticeship programs, he said. These efforts include targeted recruitment of women and minorities, as well as organizing people who are currently non-union, he added. Listen to the entire episode to learn more about these topics. --- America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues. 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