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The North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters is a council in the Midwestern District of the UBC. Local unions represent the individual members of a skilled craft in their immediate geographic area, covering a city, portion of a state, or multi-state regions.
The infusion will raise the pension fund's status to more than 60% funded, up from 34.3% funded as of 2022, according to Tom Lutz, president of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and ...
In 1988, LIUNA established the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America, which was a co-venture between labor and management to help improved health and safety for workers. [13] One year later, LIUNA locals in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., followed the example set by New York unions and instituted drug and alcohol rehabilitation ...
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, often simply the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), [2] was formed in 1881 by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. It has become one of the largest trade unions in the United States , and through chapters, and locals , there is international cooperation that poises the ...
At the same time the union's old enemy, the Carpenters union, resumed its jurisdictional war with it. Conditions improved somewhat with the advent of the New Deal and the Roosevelt administration's creation of the Works Progress Administration , a public works project that employed thousands of iron workers and other construction workers.
Article III, Section 4(a) gives the Executive Council (or the President, if the Executive Council so designates) the power to approve new affiliations, and restricts new affiliates to union whose jurisdiction does not conflict with the jurisdiction of existing members (unless the existing members authorize such affiliation).
In 1993, the carpenters' pension fund made a large investment in a company which held televised boxing matches at a Palm Springs, California, hotel owned by the fund, and a $40 million investment in a company that supplied nearly all the concrete for one of Tutor's construction companies. The value of the latter investment declined by 31 ...
The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, restoration specialists, pointers/cleaners/caulkers, stonemasons, marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tile setters, terrazzo mechanics, and tile, marble and terrazzo finishers.