A TALE OF THE DOUGY "CASH" MCCARRON ORDERED UBC SELL OUT OF UBC MEMBERS

Inside the Carpenters’ Fight for Control of Their Union

A union co-founded by a socialist has become a bastion of conservatism, but a reform movement is brewing within its ranks.

 

At 5:30 am on a Monday in July, union carpenters began gathering outside Grand Central Station. A passing Teamster stopped to express solidarity and drop off some energy drinks. A middle-aged man stood a few feet away, observing the scene. A few of the workers wondered aloud if he was there to surveil them, perhaps on behalf of the contractors, or the union leadership. The atmosphere was tense and expectant—if enough carpenters showed up, the gathering could turn into a wildcat strike.

The impetus for the early-morning assembly was dissent over the New York City District Council of Carpenters’ collective-bargaining agreement with the Association of the Wall-Ceiling and Carpentry Industries. The CBA had been accepted unanimously by the newly elected 100-person District Council delegate assembly days earlier.

Before new delegates were elected, the carpenters had been without a contract for two years. A slate of new leaders—which included more business managers, supers, and foremen than rank-and-file carpenters—swept the recent delegate elections, but the contract they accepted left some members unhappy enough to consider an unauthorized work stoppage.

The terms of the agreement became available to carpenters just a few days before the contract was formally agreed upon. Members cannot vote directly on contracts, and while Joseph Geiger, executive secretary-treasurer of the NYC District Council of Carpenters, told The Nation that leadership invited rank-and-file members to two meetings with contractors and the negotiation team to gain input on the contract, and that the delegates are expected to update members at monthly local union meetings, several members describe the contract’s details as having been “leaked” to members days before being voted on by delegates

‘This Is Much Bigger Than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’

 

The contract included significant reductions in pension contributions, along with a so-called two-tier provision. “Two-tier” refers to an arrangement where workers are compensated differently for identical work, usually based on seniority. It is a long-standing scourge of unions for its effect in dividing membership and eroding wages and benefit standards.

The controversial collective-bargaining agreement also formalized a new category of worker. Previously, there were two categories: apprentices and journeypersons. The new contract included apprentices, journeypersons, and “certified journeypersons.” Under the old standard, once a worker accumulated 5,200 hours on the job, they would graduate to journeyperson status, receiving the full, higher rate. Now, a “journeyperson” will receive a B-rate. “It’s more than a $33 decrease per hour from the certified [journeyperson] rate, around $10 less out of the wage and $23 out of the benefits, which is just insane,” says Laura Gabby, a journeyperson who has been in the union since 2012. Only upon working 10,000 hours, a number that will take a worker several years to reach, will a journeyperson graduate to certified journeyperson under the terms of the agreement. Additionally, the contract includes changes to job-site ratios that workers fear may lead certified journeypersons to be asked to either work at the lesser rate or stay home. These concessions spurred the opposition, which emerged most dramatically at the mid-July rally...

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  HEY JOE"MARSHMALLOW MAN' GEIGER. YOU DID NOT GIVE THE ORDERS FOR THE SELL OUT OF NYC MEMBERS WITH THE TIERED BS AND THE SELL OUT OF UBC APPRENTICES .YOUR LEADER DOUG MCCARON DID.

SO THAT MAKES THESE STATEMENTS LIES YOU SACK OF SHYTE

"“The purpose of the new collective-bargaining agreement is to make our Interior Systems’ signatory contractors more competitive against the nonunion, open-shop contractors.”
FUNNY THE WALL AND CEILING ASSOCIATION DID NOT ASK FOR THE SELLOUT .IT WAS ORDERED BY MCCARRON AND HIS UBC INTERNATIONAL SCUM BAGS.

"Joseph Geiger, executive secretary-treasurer of the NYC District Council of Carpenters, told The Nation that leadership invited rank-and-file members to two meetings with contractors and the negotiation team"
PROVE IT. PUBLISH THE DETAILS ON WHAT RANK AND FILE MEMBERS WERE INVITED AND HOW YOU SACK OF SHYTE.PUBLISH THE PROOF THAT DELEGATES CONSULTED WITH THE MEMBERS THEY REPRESENT BEFORE THE CONTRACT VOTE YOU LYING SACK OF SHYTE!! 

 

HEY US ATTORNEY. DO UBC MEMBERS HAVE 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS??