Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Androidâ„¢ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

Index United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America often simply, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) was formed in 1881 by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. [1]

59 relations: Atlantic City, New Jersey, Bogalusa, Louisiana, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL–CIO, Canada, Canadian Labour Congress, Change to Win Federation, Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, Collective bargaining, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Davis–Bacon Act of 1931, Douglas J. McCarron, DuPont, Eight-hour day, Exxon, Featherbedding, Frank Duffy (labor leader), Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Electric, General Motors, Great Depression, Haymarket affair, Herbert Sorrell, Hollywood, Hollywood Black Friday, Industrial unionism, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, International Woodworkers of America, James Kirby, John L. Lewis, Ku Klux Klan, Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, Laborers' International Union of North America, Local union, North America, Open shop, P. H. McCarthy, Pacific Northwest lumber strike, Peter J. McGuire, Populism, San Francisco, Service Employees International Union, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, Sherman Antitrust Act, Socialism, Southern United States, Supreme Court of the United States, ..., The Washington Post, Trade union, U.S. Steel, UNITE HERE, United Mine Workers, United States, United States Department of Labor, William Hutcheson, World War I. Expand index (9 more) »

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Atlantic City, New Jersey · See more »

Bogalusa, Louisiana

Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Bogalusa, Louisiana · See more »

Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL–CIO

The Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL–CIO (BCTD) is a constitutionally mandated department of the AFL-CIO.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL–CIO · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Canada · See more »

Canadian Labour Congress

The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in English Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Canadian Labour Congress · See more »

Change to Win Federation

The Change to Win Organizing Center (CtW) is a coalition of American labor unions originally formed in 2005 as an alternative to the AFL-CIO.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Change to Win Federation · See more »

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Charleston, South Carolina · See more »

Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Chicago · See more »

Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Collective bargaining · See more »

Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Congress of Industrial Organizations · See more »

Davis–Bacon Act of 1931

The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 · See more »

Douglas J. McCarron

Douglas J. McCarron (born 1950) is a labor union activist and, since 1995, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Douglas J. McCarron · See more »

DuPont

E.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and DuPont · See more »

Eight-hour day

The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Eight-hour day · See more »

Exxon

Exxon was the brand name of oil and natural resources company Exxon Corporation, prior to 1972 known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Exxon · See more »

Featherbedding

Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Featherbedding · See more »

Frank Duffy (labor leader)

Frank Duffy (1861 – July 11, 1955) was an American labor leader and secretary-general of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1901 to 1950.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Frank Duffy (labor leader) · See more »

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Franklin D. Roosevelt · See more »

General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and General Electric · See more »

General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and General Motors · See more »

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Great Depression · See more »

Haymarket affair

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Haymarket affair · See more »

Herbert Sorrell

Herbert Knott "Herb" Sorrell (April 18, 1897 – May 1973) was a Hollywood union organizer and leader.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Herbert Sorrell · See more »

Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Hollywood · See more »

Hollywood Black Friday

Hollywood Black Friday or "Bloody Friday" is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Hollywood Black Friday · See more »

Industrial unionism

Industrial unionism is a labour union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Industrial unionism · See more »

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE (full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada), is a labor union representing over 140,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, and trade shows.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees · See more »

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers · See more »

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents nearly 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam, and several Caribbean island nations; particularly electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other employees of public utilities.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · See more »

International Union of Painters and Allied Trades

The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is a union representing about 100,000 painters, glaziers, wall coverers, flooring installers, convention and trade show decorators, glassworkers, sign and display workers, asbestos worker/hazmat technician and drywall finishers in the United States and Canada.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and International Union of Painters and Allied Trades · See more »

International Woodworkers of America

International Woodworkers of America (IWA) was an industrial union of lumbermen, sawmill workers, timber transportation workers and others formed in 1937.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and International Woodworkers of America · See more »

James Kirby

James Kirby (– October 8, 1915) was an American labor leader and president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1913 to 1915.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and James Kirby · See more »

John L. Lewis

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and John L. Lewis · See more »

Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Ku Klux Klan · See more »

Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also "LMRDA" or the "Landrum–Griffin Act"), is a US labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 · See more »

Laborers' International Union of North America

The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA, often shortened to just the Laborers' Union) is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903, which seeks to advance the rights and interests of its members.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Laborers' International Union of North America · See more »

Local union

A local union (often shortened to local), in North America, or union branch (known as a lodge in some unions), in the United Kingdom and other countries, is a local branch (or chapter) of a usually national trade union.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Local union · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and North America · See more »

Open shop

An open shop is a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union (closed shop) as a condition of hiring or continued employment.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Open shop · See more »

P. H. McCarthy

Patrick Henry McCarthy (March 17, 1863 – July 1, 1933), generally known as P.H. McCarthy and sometimes, more jocularly, as "Pinhead", was an influential labor leader in San Francisco and the 29th Mayor of the City from 1910 to 1912.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and P. H. McCarthy · See more »

Pacific Northwest lumber strike

The 1935 Pacific Northwest lumber strike was an industry-wide labor strike organized by the Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union (STWU).

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Pacific Northwest lumber strike · See more »

Peter J. McGuire

Peter J. McGuire (July 6, 1852 – February 18, 1906) was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Peter J. McGuire · See more »

Populism

In politics, populism refers to a range of approaches which emphasise the role of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite".

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Populism · See more »

San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and San Francisco · See more »

Service Employees International Union

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Service Employees International Union · See more »

Sheet Metal Workers' International Association

The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association 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.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association · See more »

Sherman Antitrust Act

The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act) is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Sherman Antitrust Act · See more »

Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Socialism · See more »

Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Southern United States · See more »

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Supreme Court of the United States · See more »

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and The Washington Post · See more »

Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and Trade union · See more »

U.S. Steel

United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and U.S. Steel · See more »

UNITE HERE

UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and UNITE HERE · See more »

United Mine Workers

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and United Mine Workers · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and United States · See more »

United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and United States Department of Labor · See more »

William Hutcheson

William Hutcheson (February 6, 1874 – October 20, 1953) was the leader of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1915 until 1952.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and William Hutcheson · See more »

World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

New!!: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and World War I · See more »

Redirects here:

Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Carpenters & Joiners Union, Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union, UBCJA, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Brotherhood_of_Carpenters_and_Joiners_of_America

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »