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Jan. 14—Coming up in Hawaii's construction industry as apprentices, drywaller Trisha Taketa and carpenter Vaneza Austria were usually the only women on their job sites where they received side ...
This category contains trade unions that primarily represent carpenters and joiners, and related occupations such as cabinetmakers, shopfitters and wood machinists. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Twin City Carpenters District Council was founded in 1915 to build strength for the Union Locals throughout the area. The Millwrights were already a part of the Brotherhood and additional crafts joined later: Pile Drivers in 1937, Floor Coverers in 1940, and the Lathers in 1979.
The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (SMWIA) was a trade union of skilled metal workers who perform architectural sheet metal work, fabricate and install heating and air conditioning work, shipbuilding, appliance construction, heater and boiler construction, precision and specialty parts manufacture, and a variety of other jobs involving sheet metal.
Jul. 21—The former business manager of a Hawaii labor union who was convicted of rigging a vote to raise dues and taking members' money to pay for his family's extravagant lifestyle was ...
Feb. 18—State labor negotiators have come to terms with one of Hawaii's larger public workforce unions on a new four-year contract that provides roughly 4 % to 5 % pay raises in each of the next ...
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. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ISBN 0-252-01345-X
The union also found itself challenged by a change in the business climate in the 1970s, as non-union contractors invaded markets that had been solidly union for years with the support of the Business Roundtable, made up of the heads of General Motors, General Electric, Exxon, U.S. Steel, DuPont and others. The Roundtable also attempted to ...