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Swoboda, Frank. "Carpenters Union Could Lose $ 95 Million." Washington Post. September 20, 1989. Weinstein, Henry. "Union Trust Funds Accept $29.9-Million to Settle Suit." Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1989. Willman, David. "Subway Builder's Link to Union Questioned." Los Angeles Times. May 24, 1993. Winston, Sherie. "McCarron Remodels ...
(Hannah Wiley / Los Angeles Times) Every few months over the last two years, a sea of California carpenters has clogged the state Capitol to voice their support of high-profile housing legislation ...
He consolidated locals in Los Angeles in 1988, in San Diego in 1990 and Orange and Riverside counties in California in 1991. Although members challenged the consolidations, a federal appeals court upheld union Lucassen's right to force consolidations if they are in the interest of union members.
He apprenticed as a carpenter, and in 1939 joined the local in Los Angeles. He married his wife, Frankie, in 1936 and the couple had three children. In 1948, he was elected business manager of Local 721 in Los Angeles, and in 1957 secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles District Council of Carpenters.
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The Nor Cal Carpenters Union represents 22 unions, including Carpenters Local 152, and more than 36,000 members, according to its website. Show comments Advertisement
The 1992 Southern California drywall strike was a strike by Mexican and Mexican American drywall hangers, many of whom were undocumented, for fair wages and health insurance from contractors, who stole two billion dollars a years in income taxes, social security, and worker's compensation payments from the workers and collaborated with the local police to repress the organizers.
The most famous one, and the only one to cause any loss of life, killed twenty employees of the Los Angeles Times on October 1, 1910. Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis was a staunch opponent of labor unions, and the main supporter for the open shop movement in Los Angeles. Authorities arrested James B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal in Detroit ...