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We have 25 years of experience in residential and commercial plumbing. Our capabilities range from major repipe projects to leaky faucets. If your needs are immediate we can assist you in all problems great and small.

As a California Licensed Contractor, Barker Plumbing has requisite skills, training and ability to complete all facets of plumbing. Whether you have a leaky faucet or major slab leak, Barker Plumbing can assist you in all your pumbing needs.

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — A California court has dealt a blow to an open-shop apprenticeship program run by the California Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors. The court ruled that the California Apprenticeship Council had not followed its own rules when it approved expansion of the open-shop program statewide in 1998.

The PHCC program was approved as a state-recognized apprenticeship program in Sacramento County in 1994. The ruling in Sacramento County Superior Court only affects the expansion of the program outside Sacramento County.
California PHCC will continue to run the program, said the group’s executive vice president, Steve Lehtonen, but its students will not be recognized by the state as apprentices. They will technically be “trainees.” The programs also lose state education funding. The students will not be allowed to work on public works projects.

{MAINTENANCE WORKERS WARNED – DON’T TAKE THE GAMBLE WITH ASBESTOS
“Don’t take a gamble with your life” is the message to maintenance workers from Steve Coldrick, Director of the Health and Safety Executive’s Disease Reduction Programme.

These workers, including plumbers, carpenters and builders, account for more than one quarter of the 3,5000 asbestos-related cancer deaths each year. To raise their awareness of the dangers of working with asbestos, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today launched its “Don’t take the gamble” campaign.

More than half a million non-domestic premises and houses still contain some form of the material, posing a real threat to unwary maintenance workers. These workers are at risk because they may unknowingly drill or cut into material that could contain asbestos and breathe in the deadly fibres.

At the launch of the campaign at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health’s annual conference, Steve Coldrick said: