The Native Construction Careers Institute (NCCI) is bringing real
on-site training for real jobs on Reservations in the US

NW LECET and National LECET are  working together to expand LIUNA's Market Share and bring career opportunities to Tribal Members through Tribal Labor Agreements and the jointly sponsored CTER/LIUNA Native Construction Careers Initiative (NCCI). A very successful program that works brining Indians and Native Alaskans into quality construction career training that is funded through a number of sources.

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NCCI Report – A History of Partnering for Success June 2011 newsletter – The Native Construction Careers Institute (NCCI) is a partnership between the Laborers’ International Union of North America and the Council for Tribal Employment and Rights Program. Click Here to see a slide show of some of the highlights of NCCI History.

Tribal Partnership Update - Alaska Villages reap benefits of NCCI and Laborers Union weatherization training.  On the fabled Yukon River, two tribes are employing their people to work on a huge weatherization effort to cut heating costs for tribal housing. 

Tribal Partnership Update - NCCI Weatherization Training In Interior Alaska a Major NCCI Success. Native Alaskan Weatherization Trainees, Learning and Earning. Class to join Laborers' Union Local 942 doing work back home. (more)

Tribal Partnership Update - NCCI Starts Training at Crow Nation.  Many Stars Coal to Liquid Project could employ up to 4000 in construction.

Tribal Parternship Update - NCCI LAUNCHES AMIDST PRAISE FROM DIGNITARIES: The Native NativeConstruction Careers Institute has 15 International Construction Unions and the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department as partners in a new effort to bring family supporting jobs and economic development to Indian Country. Launching in Washingtion, DC, Congressman Norm Dicks and Senator Byron Dorgan praised efforts of tribes and construction unions to train tribal members for union jobs on Indian Reservations.

Tribal Partnership Update - The Native Construction Careers Institute Transitions from Initiative to Institute.  Cheyenne River Sioux opts for NCCI Entrepreneur Program.

Tribal Partnership Update - Spirit Lake Tribe realizes another  benefit of NCCI Training.  Blackfeet Tribe schedules 5 Laborers-AGC training modules in response to construction projects on and near their reservation.  Tribes and construction unions are getting creative in avoiding "going to the same federal well" approach to funding construction training classes.

Tribal Partnership Update - Spirit Lake Tribe creates real bid opportunities for NCCI Entrepreneurship Trainees.  Tribal Council has graduates paired into teams to submit sealed bids for tribal projects.

Tribal Partnership Update - Spirit Lake Tribe honors graduates of 200 Hour NCCI Entrepreneurship course. Stimulus Package money helps continue NCCI future programs, Weatherization Auditor and Train the Trainer modules starting in Alaska and other tribal areas.

Tribal Partnership Update - Spirit Lake Tribe honors graduates of 300 Hour NCCI course. Tribal leaders ask for enhanced 200 Hour entrepreneurial module.

Tribal Partnership Update - NCCI Program is being used as training model for Indian Country Economic Stimulus Package (click to view)  

Tribal Partnership Update - Spirit Lake Tribe sees first group of 100 hour graduates of NCCI's 300 hour program (click to view)

Tribal Partnership Update - Pilot CTER/LIUNA Training Program at Blackfeet Nation a Success (click to view)

Native Construction Careers Initiative - Overview and pictorial of the first phase of the first project of our program. (click to view)

Tribal Partnership Update - Blackfeet Tribe in Montana Trains for Housing Repair (click to view)

Tribal Partnership Update -  Contractor Increases Market Share at Fort Peck (10/2007) (click to view)

Tribal Partnership Update - CTER and Laborers/LECET form Partnership (click to view)

Tribal Partnership Update - TERO Convention - Focus on Labor Law and Sovereignty (click to view)

A PERFECT PARTNERSHIP
Fort Peck Tribes, LECET
and the Montana Laborers