June 3, 2025
The Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association International Training Fund (OPCMIA-ITF), in collaboration with Sto Corp., conducted an EIFS Train-the-Trainer program in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 20–22, 2025.
August 29, 2024
The OPCMIA International Training Fund provides uniform, state-of-the-art, world-class training in our crafts – cement masonry and plastering. It combines classroom instruction with hands-on experience to ensure that our members are the most skilled craftspeople anywhere.
April 27, 2024
At the OPCMIA International Training Fund, we believe that every worker has the fundamental right to return home from the jobsite safely and in good health each and every day. That’s why health and safety is at the core of our mission.
March 8, 2024
To ensure that we supply the skilled plasterers, cement masons and shop hands our industry urgently needs in the coming years, it is essential that more women join our union and learn our crafts.
October 10, 2023
For more than 10 years, OPCMIA Local 633’s Joint Apprentice Training Committee (JATC) has been conducting a model, highly successful pre-apprenticeship programs in partnership with area Indian Tribes, giving Native Americans the opportunity to learn cement masonry and gain access to lifelong careers as OPCMIA members.
September 1, 2023
September is Suicide Prevention Month. But for all of us in the OPCMIA International Training Fund and for all OPCMIA members, every month—indeed, every single day—requires constant vigilance about preventing suicide.
July 17, 2023
Safety and health is a top priority for the OPCMIA International Training Fund (ITF). While we have historically focused on physical health—preventing injuries, illnesses and accidents in deeply demanding crafts that involve hard physical labor, heavy equipment and challenging working conditions—it’s now apparent that mental health is every bit as important.
July 13, 2023
The OPCMIA ITF’s premier annual event, the Instructor Training Program, is taking place this week at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And it is making a profound difference in the lives of attendees, helping them reach new levels of impact as educators and trainers.
February 21, 2023
The OPCMIA International Training Fund’s premier annual event, the Instructor Training Program, will be held from July 10-14, 2023 at Washtenaw Community College (WCC) in Ann Arbor, Michigan — and registration is now open.