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The locals were forcibly merged into a new affiliate, Local 803, which was in turn supervised from McCarron's Los Angeles offices. In 1992, carpenters' international union president Sigurd Lucassen and McCarron ordered a snap one-day election to select new Local 803 leaders.
(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 ...
Organize or Die: Smash Boss Unionism - Build Union Power. Self-published, 1970. Johnson, Clyde. Millmen 550—A History of the Militant Years (1961–1966) of Local 550, United Brotherhood of Carpenters. Self-published, 1990. Kazin, Michael. Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era.
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.
Between 2020 and 2022, insurance companies declined to renew 2.8 million homeowner policies in California, including 531,000 in Los Angeles County, according to data from the California Department ...
Western States Carpenters Local Union 59 asked its members to attend Richland City Council’s Jan. 7 meeting to show support for a 425-acre land deal with an undisclosed company. The project has ...
This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. [6] 1834 (United States) Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike. [6] 1834 (United States) Manayunk, Pennsylvania Textile Strike. [6] 1835 (United States) Carpenters, masons, and stone-cutters began a strike as part of the Ten-Hour Movement among skilled workers. [6]
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