Trust Fund Update

The JATC is preparing to conduct the 74th Annual Apprentice Graduation exercises in the main hall on Thursday, June 3, 2021, at 6:30 pm. The JATC Trustees, Staff, and Instructors are proud of our 141 Electrical & 21 Telecom graduates. Please join us in congratulating them on their successful completion of our five-year programs and wishing them well in their careers in the union electrical industry. Graduation will be conducted safely and in accordance with State and City gathering capacity and social distancing guidelines. Due to capacity limits, attendance will be limited to JATC Trustees, faculty, graduates, and their guests by invitation only.

Due to the pandemic and reorganization efforts at WIT, they have temporarily paused all part-time undergraduate programs (part-time Bachelor’s and Associates). We hope to have an update in the Fall on when the partnership program will resume. In the meantime, the Graduate School is offering a 15% tuition discount (discount of roughly $5,300) for any union member if they already have a Bachelor’s degree and wish to further their education with a Master’s Degree. Most of the graduate programs consist of only 10 or 11 courses required to earn the degree. Part-time students could finish in less than two years. Visit: https://wit.edu/admissions/graduate for more info or contact Graduate Admissions Counselor Kathryn Melo at 617-989-4411 or via email at melok1@wit.edu.

WIT is also offering members certificate training. Find out more by visiting their website https://wit.edu/careers/career-prep.

• Almost 1,500 Health Plan Participants have been tested for COVID-19 here at the Local 103 campus and another 300 have been tested at local CVS pharmacy locations.

• Participants with loans from the Deferred Income Plan that took advantage of the payment suspension under the CARES Act, need to again begin making loan payments in April 2021.