Welcome to the roofing and water proofing apprenticeship website

Apprenticeship is the system where you learn a skilled trade while you are actively working at the trade getting paid good wages. Our program is union based meaning you receive the highest wage and benefits in the industry. Additionally, because we have multiple employers you can change employers and continue your training at the same wage and benefit rate.

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Last News

2011 Graduation

We are in the middle of the biggest building boom we have ever experienced. We are currently looking for people interested in working in the roofing and waterproofing trade. We accept applications daily. You can call us at 510 628-3650 or contact the three locals listed on our contact page. We especially welcome female applicants. Applicants will be evaluated and given credit for previous experience.Read More

Remembering Stan

Read the latest announcements about the Bay Area Roofing & Waterproofing Apprenticeship Program and our upgrading classes for journeymens. You can also view some  photos from our different apprenticeship classes. Duane Mongerson inducted into CAC Hall of Fame Our program is pleased that our retired Director of Apprenticeship Training M. Duane Mongerson has been inducted into the California Apprenticeship Council Hall of Fame!. The announcement came during the recent California Conference on Apprenticeship in San Diego. The California Apprenticeship Council (CAC) established the California Apprenticeship Hall of Fame in 1981. Its purpose is to officially recognize individuals who, through their effort, devotion and commitment have made significant and long lasting contributions to apprenticeship in the State of California. M. Duane Mongerson is precisely such an individual. Among Duane’s noteworthy accomplishments and contributions were professionalizing the Bay Area Roofing Apprenticeship Program; authoring roofing text that are still used throughout California; testifying…Read More

Shape Up at City Lunch Has Anything Changed Since the Death of a Roofer?

San Francisco – It promised to be a nice warm day. At 7:30 a.m., the men, mostly of Mexican descent, or possibly from other places in Central America, were milling around, waiting to be picked up by vehicles ranging from old banged up pickup trucks, to the most modern of roofing trucks with equipment costing five or six figures. Sal Botello, the organizer for Roofers Local 40, had grabbed a cup of coffee from inside City Lunch (officially, City Café) and was chatting with one of the men. Some will talk to him readily, and others avoid him, afraid that the underground contractors who come around looking for bodies might avoid them for fear of the union. This man, with five years experience as a roofer, was a talker. They chatted away in Spanish. The men can expect to work from dawn to dusk, 12 or more hours, for $60…Read More