Filco Carting teams up with local union to offer apprenticeship program

Filco Carting, a Brooklyn, New York-based provider of commercial waste collection throughout the greater New York City metro area, has announced it is teaming up with the Local 108 union to offer training sessions as part of the Pathway to Apprenticeship (P2A) program.

As part of the program, Filco will offer career mentoring and life skills training to members of underserved communities to help establish and build their careers.

A key developer of the initiative is Kajeem Hill—a former Filco Carting team member, Local 108 business agent and co-founder of the P2A program, which was founded in 2013.

The P2A program aims to provide participants access to a building trades career, with more than half of participants having a history of justice involvement. The mission of the program is to recruit, train and help provide career opportunities to deserving participants—specifically those in the re-entry community—for life-long careers.

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To date, the program has assisted over 300 people with career-related mentorship, 66 percent of whom were formerly incarcerated. More than 85 percent of graduates from the program are still working in their P2A-trained positions, and many are now giving back as “peer mentors” in the program.

Beginning on Nov. 8, Filco will invite the newest P2A participants to its facilities to begin the process of guiding them toward a career in waste services.

“As a longtime union trustee, myself, I have a deeply rooted passion for working with Local 108…,” says Domenic Monopoli, CEO of Filco Carting. “I am particularly proud that Filco is participating with and working side by side with our Local 108 in an invaluable program that provides all too often overlooked yet deserving and hardworking people with career opportunities that may not otherwise be accessible to them.”