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Local 157 (Downtown and East Side of Manhattan) – carpenters * Local 257 (Manhattan Lower East Side) – carpenters; dissolved 2000 and members transferred to new Local 157; Local 348 (Queens) – carpenters * Local 608 – dissolved 2007 and members transferred to Local 157; Local 740 (greater NY) – millwright and machinery erectors
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
Building industry carpenters and millwrights. 2015: UBC: International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) 1937 424,579 Freight handlers at ports. 2016: ILWU: International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) 1896 392,584 Operators of construction equipment; stationary engineers. 2015: IUOE: United Association (UA) 1889 324,043
Local 464 Mankato, MN Carpenters January 1, 2003 Local 548 St. Paul, MN Millwrights December 4, 1900 Local 587 Sioux Falls, SD Carpenters July 13, 1949 Local 606 Virginia, MN Carpenters May 8, 1953 Local 678 Dubuque, IA Carpenters July 2, 1890 Local 731 Sheboygan, WI Carpenters May 1, 1987 Local 930 Saint Augusta, MN Carpenters October 28, 1901
A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. [ 1 ] The term millwright (also known as industrial mechanic [ 2 ] ) is mainly used in the United States, Canada and South Africa to describe members belonging to a ...
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.
LIUNA's origins stretch back to the 19th century when local construction unions began popping up across the United States. [6] Then, in March 1903, Samuel Gompers, the President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), successfully persuaded various local construction unions from across the U.S. to unite in order to consolidate power in their fight against unfair labor practices.
In the early 2000s, Local 1 of the union, which represented 2,900 members, was subject to a federal labor racketeering investigation, leading to the indictment of several union leaders. [ 11 ] [ 7 ] In 2005, the union was embroiled in a labor dispute with New York's elevator companies over wage increases and over proposals by the companies to ...