Trainees spend the majority of each week laying brick and block. Additional classroom time covers OSHA safety regulations, basic blueprint reading and other related subjects. Some of the graduates' new employers attended the ceremony, hosted by Alderman Marvin Pratt, chairman of the Finance and Personnel Committee. Graduation speakers included Pratt, IMI Board of Trustee member Fred Kinateder, President of Kinateder Masonry, Inc., and BAC Wisconsin District Council Director Tim Ihlenfeld. Like their Milwaukee counterparts, they were employed once they completed the program.
Bricklayers are in high demand throughout Florida.
Everyone else benefits, too, he says.