Central Midwest Carpenters

What Central Midwest Carpenters does

Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters (CMRCC), also known as IKORCC, is a non-profit labor union representing approximately 38,670 professional tradespeople across 33 local unions in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. The organization is an affiliate of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), which has a 140-year tradition of representing the building trades. CMRCC serves two primary customer constituencies: individual tradespeople seeking structured career pathways in carpentry, millwright, and floor covering trades, and signatory construction contractors seeking qualified, trained workforce for commercial, residential, and specialized projects. Named end-clients include Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, Five Rivers Medical Center, and Metro Health Cleveland.

The core offering is a four-year apprenticeship program combining 5,200 hours of on-the-job training with 640 classroom hours, producing journey-level carpenters, millwrights, and floor coverers. The union delivers specialized certifications including ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment for healthcare construction), INSTALL flooring, and Door Safety Inspections, alongside an eight-week Military Veterans Program (MVP) that has graduated 638 service members across five military bases. Operational infrastructure includes the Mix 2020 online job dispatch system, an online dues payment portal, regional training centers across the three states, and a recently launched e-commerce merchandise store (CMRCC Shop). The technology footprint is member-services oriented rather than product-oriented.

CMRCC operates as a non-profit membership organization funded primarily through recurring member dues, with additional revenue from training programs and ancillary services. Go-to-market is community-led and event-driven: recruitment occurs through apprenticeship open houses (over 7,800 attendees in 2023), pre-apprenticeship SEAL school partnerships, community volunteer programs (Habitat for Humanity, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Build-A-Bed), and the MVP veteran-transition pipeline. Job placement operates through the Mix 2020 dispatch system connecting available members with contractor job opportunities across thousands of signatory contractors.

Name

Central Midwest Carpenters

Legal name

Central Midwest Regional Council of Carpenters

Website

https://cmwcarpenters.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Central Midwest Carpenters is a non-profit labor union (CMRCC/IKORCC) representing 38,670 carpenters, millwrights, and floor coverers across 33 local unions in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, delivering apprenticeship training, job placement, and benefits as a UBC affiliate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trade Union Services

NAICS

Apprenticeship Training (611513), Finish Carpentry Contractors (23835)

SIC

Construction - Special Trade Contractors (1700)

akta.pro primary industry

Carpentry & Framing (EDAOAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Finish Carpentry, Millwork & Cabinetry (EDAOAAAI)

Keywords

• Carpenter union services
• Apprenticeship training programs
• Construction trade labor
• Millwright training services
• Union job placement

Headquarters

HQ city

Greenwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Union Membership Dues: Members pay dues to the union, which provides representation, training, benefits administration, and job placement services. Dues support the operating costs of the regional council and local unions.
2. Dues Payment Portal: Online dues payment system for members to pay their union dues.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Central Midwest Carpenters is a regional labor union that recruits, trains, certifies, and dispatches carpenters, millwrights, and floor coverers to signatory construction contractors across Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. It operates apprenticeship programs, industry certifications (ICRA, INSTALL, Door Safety Inspections), and a job dispatch platform that connects members with contractor work opportunities.

Product overview

Central Midwest Carpenters is a union organization, not a technology product company. It offers union membership and related services including apprenticeship training programs in carpentry, millwright, and floor covering trades. The organization provides specialized training certifications (ICRA, Door Safety Inspections, INSTALL flooring), a job dispatch system (Mix 2020), an online dues payment portal, and an online merchandise store. Training is delivered through facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, with a Military Veterans Program offering expedited apprenticeship entry for transitioning service members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 38,670 members represented across 33 local unions
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• U.S. Military (MVP Program)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Military Veterans Program (MVP) provides eight-week pre-apprenticeship for service members at five military bases. Offers direct entry with one year of credit into apprenticeship programs across the United States. Has graduated 638 service members over five years.
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent organization affiliation providing 140+ years of tradition in representing the building trades. The Central Midwest Carpenters is an affiliate of UBC, which has established training standards, benefits programs, and collective bargaining frameworks used by the regional council.
• Habitat for HumanitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal union members volunteer time and construction skills to build homes for families in need. Bobby Miller serves as construction superintendent on Paducah-McCracken County Habitat projects. Members have helped build multiple homes including one for Tineka Bard Zarlunga.
• Sleep in Heavenly PeacemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to build beds for children who sleep on the floor. Local 175, Local 1076, and their families team up with the organization in Louisville. Produces over 300 beds per year for the community.
• Metro United WayminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for community service projects including Build-A-Bed events in Louisville, Kentucky. Collaborates with Prosser High School and Metro United Way to ensure children have beds to sleep in.
• State Earn and Learn (SEAL) Program PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Porter County Career Center, Portage High School, and Chesterton High School to deliver state-level pre-apprenticeship programs aligned with Indiana Career and Technical Education standards.
• Five Rivers Medical CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNew three-story health center construction project in Dayton, Ohio. IKORCC members building the facility which will serve approximately 600 patients daily, including low-income and uninsured patients.
• Grayson Training Center Expansion PartnersminorGTM or Marketing PartnerExpansion of Grayson, Kentucky training facility. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear attended groundbreaking ceremony. $5 million investment to address growing need for construction workers.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC): National parent organization and 140+ year-old labor union that sets training standards, collective bargaining frameworks, and benefit programs used by CMRCC. It is the broad incumbent to which CMRCC is affiliated and whose national brand and infrastructure CMRCC leverages.

Direct peers

• Northeast Carpenters (Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters): A geographically adjacent UBC regional council covering the U.S. Northeast with similar apprenticeship training, job dispatch, and signatory-contractor programs. Directly comparable as a fellow UBC regional affiliate running the same trades and operating model in a different territory.
• Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters: UBC regional council covering California, Arizona, Nevada, and other Southwestern states. A direct peer with identical trade union business model — apprenticeship training, contractor dispatch, and member representation in carpentry, millwright, and floor covering trades.
• Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters: UBC regional council serving Oregon, Washington, and Idaho with analogous apprenticeship, training, and dispatch services for carpenters and millwrights. Operates the same UBC institutional playbook as CMRCC, making it a directly comparable regional peer.
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW): Sister building trades union with overlapping apprenticeship programs, contractor partnerships, and job dispatch infrastructure. Directly comparable as a construction trade union competing for the same apprentices, signatory contractors, and project labor agreements in the same regional market.
• Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA): Major building trades union with parallel apprenticeship training, training centers, and signatory contractor structure. A direct peer competing for the same apprentice pool, contractor relationships, and regional construction project labor in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.
• International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT): Building trades union covering painters, finishers, and glaziers with the same apprenticeship model and union contractor structure. Directly comparable peer competing on adjacent finishing trades within the same construction labor market CMRCC serves.
• International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC): Construction craft union covering masonry and tile trades with apprenticeship training and signatory contractor networks. Operates an institutionally analogous apprenticeship-to-journeyman pipeline and competes for the same apprentice demographic.

Emerging players

• Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC): National open-shop/merit-shop construction trade association running its own apprenticeship and craft training programs. Not a union but a structurally comparable labor-supply organization competing for the same apprentices, contractors, and projects via an alternative (non-union) model.

Others

• National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER): Nonprofit that develops standardized craft training curricula and credentials adopted by many open-shop apprenticeship programs. An adjacent/enabling peer rather than a direct competitor — its curriculum standard increasingly competes with UBC's apprenticeship framework for adoption by regional training programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cmwcarpenters
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cmwcarpenters
• Facebookfacebook.com/CMWCarpenters
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cmwcarpenters
• Instagraminstagram.com/cmwcarpenters

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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