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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 ...
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.
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.
He then returned to Chicago, working for the Masonry Institute of Cook County, then becoming administrator of various funds for the bricklayers' union local. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1966, Joyce was appointed as secretary of the international union, in which role he set up the International Masonry Institute.
For example, in 1956, laborers in Pittsburgh were able to form pension plans. [10] Also, in 1955, the union helped establish the National Joint Heavy and Highway Construction Committee. The purpose of the committee was to ensure that union members could take advantage of the jobs created by the Interstate Highway Act of 1954. [10]
This category contains trade unions that primarily represent bricklayers, as well as related occupations such as refractory bricklayers and tuckpointers. Pages in category "Bricklayers' trade unions" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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.