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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 ...
International union officials, who had already consolidated the number of union locals to 1,466 from 2,200 since 1978, [6] sided with McCarron, and the wave of consolidations continued. [1] Some union members questioned McCarron's motivation for the mergers. For example, in 1991, several carpenter locals in Orange and Riverside counties were ...
Patrick J. Campbell (July 22, 1918 – February 21, 1998) was a carpenter and an American labor leader. He was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from November 1, 1982 to February 1988. Campbell was born in 1918 in New York City to Peter and Mary Campbell. His father was a city mass transit employee.
Peter J. McGuire (July 6, 1852 – February 18, 1906) was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century. He co-founded the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1881 along with Gustav Luebkert [1] and became one of the leading figures in the first three decades of the American Federation of Labor.
The conference established an international information service, and this organised a further congress in Zurich in 1893, then a conference of woodworkers was organised in London in 1896, alongside the International Labour Congress. However, the information service then ceased to operate, and new international links were not established until 1899.
He joined the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1894, founding a new local in Yonkers. He was elected as vice-president of the union in 1898, and then as president in 1899. [1] As president of the Carpenters, Huber built a powerful personal machine among the international union's organizers.
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 United Order of American Carpenters and Joiners was a trade union in the United States. It represented carpenters in the New York City area, making it one of the largest carpenters' unions in the U.S. in the 1880s. It merged with the Brotherhood of Carpenters in 1888 to form the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.