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The oldest continuously operating trade union in North America, [2] BAC was founded in 1865 as the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America (BMPIU). It was established during a great wave of blue-collar union formation in the 1860s.
North America's Building Trades Unions is a labor federation of 14 North American unions in the building trade. [4] Affiliates are the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters), International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC), International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC), International Union of Painters ...
Timothy J. Driscoll is an American labor union leader. Born in Massachusetts, Driscoll became a bricklayer, and joined the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers in 1985. In 1993, he moved to Washington, D.C., and continued his career there. He began working full-time for the union in 1995, initially in the government ...
James Boland is a retired Irish-born, American labor union leader.. Born in Ireland, Boland attended University College Dublin. [1] He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and settled in San Francisco, where he worked laying bricks, stone and marble, and joined the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.
As leader of the union, he created new pension and health and safety schemes. He served as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO from 1984, and also on the executive of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions , in which role he argued that construction unions in poorer countries should link training programs to affordable housing.
John J. Flynn is an American former labor union leader. Born in St. Louis, Flynn became an apprentice bricklayer in 1952, and joined the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. He worked in the craft for 20 years, eventually becoming a superintendent. He was elected as business agent of his local union, and then as business ...
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) filed suit to overturn the October 1995 presidential election in the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. A portion of the DOL lawsuit alleged that Georgine used BCTD funds and his position as president to support the re-election of the incumbent president (a Georgine supporter).
The International Secretariat of Stone Masons and the International Secretariat of Painters and Allied Trades later joined the organisation. As of 2005 [update] , it had 287 member organisations in 124 countries, representing a combined membership of more than 10 million workers.