THIS FLUFF PIECE WAS WRITTEN BY BARBARA DELOLLIS WHO APPEARS TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF CASH MCCARRONS CRONY JOHN DELOLLIS
YOU KNOW THE ONE THAT DOUGY GAVE A TROPHY TO AT THE 43RD UBC CLOWN CONVENTION
JOHN DELOLLIS ALSO WAS UP TO HIS ARSE IN LOSING MEMBERS PENSIONS IN NY AND WAS QUICK TO POINT THE FINGER AT EVERYBODY ELSE.HE CONSPIRED WITH CASH MCCARRON AND THE PHONY LAWSUIT DOUGY FILED AGAINST ALL THE OTHER FUND TRUSTEES.MCCARRON DROPPED THE LAWSUIT SO FAST THE DEFENDANTS DID NOT HAVE TIME TO EVEN ANSWER THE COMPLAINT
MAYBE THAT IS WHY DOUGY GAVE HIM A TROPHY
SO IT APPEARS MOMMA WAS CORRECT WHEN SHE SAID "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES"
AND IS IT TRUE "YOU JUST CANT FIX STUPID"
JUST A COUPLE OF "HIGHLIGHTS FROM AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS MCCARRON"
QUESTION:
IS THE UBC STILL A MANS WORLD
DOUG:
WELL YES!!
BUT WHEN I WAS A BUSINESS AGENT I GOT THREE LADIES FROM THE COFFEE SHOP IN THE CARPENTERS UNION
" I RECRUITED THEM"
I WONDER IF THAT WAS WHEN DOUGY STARTED CALLING UBC FEMALE MEMBERS BUNS AND HIS CAREER AS AN ALLEGED PERVERT BEGAN
NOW THERE IS A SHINING LIGHT OF TRYING TO "UP OUR RANKS OF WOMEN"
NO SERIOUSLY HE SAID THAT!! YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP
" I GOT THEM A JOB DOING ACOUSTICAL TILE WORK" WTF!!
I AM SURE HE MEANT TO SAY HE GOT THEM COFFEE SHOP LADIES IN AS FIRST YEAR APPRENTICES. CORRECT??
AND....
THE UBC IS KNOWN AS HAVING A PRO BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY.WAS THAT A RISKY PHILOSOPHY TO ADOPT
For most labor unions, I would say that's risky. For the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, I don't believe it is. When you look at who our members are, they're really entrepreneurs. Every individual carpenter gets paid on his skill and his attitude on the job site. So, he understands business.
OUR MEMBERS ARE REALLY ENTREPRENEURS!!
en·tre·pre·neur- a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
WE COULD GO ON BUT HAVE READ FOR YOURSELF BUT DRESS ACCORDINGLY.THE COW SHYTE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE
CARPENTERS UNION LEADER COMMITTED TO COLLABORATION,LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Editor's note: Below are highlights from an exclusive interview with Douglas McCarron, the leader of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC) for 30 years. The son of a supermarket meat cutter, McCarron began his career as an 18-year-old union carpenter in Los Angeles. He considers training, productivity, and collaboration with contractors vital to ensuring that his union’s members maintain or grow their share of construction jobs in North America. BiGS Head of Communications Barbara DeLollis interviewed McCarron and others at UBC’s international training facility in Las Vegas. The interview has been edited for length, clarity, and style.
This year marks your 30th year as elected general president. Not a lot of CEOs are in office that long. What is your secret?
We’ve got three levels of the union — the local, the regional council, and the international. We have great communication between all three. Everybody knows what our goals are and what our vision is. I think that makes a big difference.
Do you change your goals and your visions each year?
We've got one goal: to have a 70% market share of the country and Canada.
Given your longevity, can you give us tips for leaders who are just starting off in their careers?
I think the biggest tip is building a team around you of really solid people who understand the vision of the company you’re with or you're building.
You've flown in Air Force One with President [George W.] Bush, and you had former President Joe Biden here to announce the new high-speed rail system between Las Vegas and Southern California, which will be built with union labor. Have you proven that unions can have bipartisan appeal?
We've got a lot of Republicans in the House of Representatives that we support. They support us on Davis-Bacon prevailing wage on federal jobs [this requires contractors working on federal projects to pay their employees no less than the locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits]. With George Bush, I was a little apprehensive because we supported his competition, and he won. We went up to a training center in Wisconsin, right outside of Green Bay. I found him to be very up-front. He said, ‘I know that Davis-Bacon is important to you. It’s the law of the land. I'm not going to change it.’ That's important to our membership.
Recent studies show that labor unions are enjoying a moment of high public approval and strong belief in the benefits they offer to workers, businesses, and the economy. Why do you think that is?
I think people are starting to realize that, ‘You know what? My employer is not treating me right. I should get more money.’ The inequality in the United States is intolerable. I think people are looking at unions to alleviate that.
Do you think corporate America still views labor unions as being negative for business?
The construction industry ... views us as an impediment to their making more money. But I've had a few of them out here at the training center [in Las Vegas], and they're just blown away at the amount of training we do here.
And on that note, how much money do you have invested?
We've got about $150 million invested here.
Tell us about the campus.
It's about 1 million square feet. We've got 330 rooms tied with the training center here. And we've got two hotels with another 300. And we're building a third hotel here.
I’d love to hear a little bit more about what you say to the business owners and the leaders of these contractor companies.
The productivity of our members on the job site. That’s the biggest thing.
If there was one thing that you would love to see business leaders do to collaborate with unions, what would that be?
UBC is open. You want to come in here, look at what we do, the training we do? We’ll show you that, and we would like you to reciprocate. What do we have to do to be a better unit? ... We can't be successful unless we have successful employers.
I'd love to hear about the pension funds and how you make sure the money is secure?
Well, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters in the United States has over $100 billion in pension assets. We just started a program two years ago where we take all our equity money and instead of giving it to money managers, we put it in the Russell 3000 [the top publicly traded U.S. companies]. We'll save $100 million a year.
Do you take into consideration factors like climate or social impact [when you invest pension funds]?
I think everybody has to do that. But I want to be realistic. I've got a fiduciary responsibility to my member to get him a good return.
What kind of jobs do your members have?
We build bridges. We build big auto plants. We build houses. We build apartment houses ... We're real big in energy.
What are the biggest challenges facing your union?
It is federal law. It's stacked against workers, and that's a big challenge.
Can you give a very high level of what your priorities are?
Right now, our top priority is … the three big bills [Biden signed]: the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. There’s over $1 trillion in there of carpenters’ work. There's ten years of great work ... It might be going too far to say that the United States of America has an industrial policy, but this is the closest thing.
What would you say are the biggest opportunities for your members? Would climate be one of them?
Yes. The climate bill Biden signed [the Inflation Reduction Act] was huge. We're building a lot of solar factories around the country.
UBC is known as having a pro-business philosophy. Was that a risky philosophy to adopt?
For most labor unions, I would say that's risky. For the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, I don't believe it is. When you look at who our members are, they're really entrepreneurs. Every individual carpenter gets paid on his skill and his attitude on the job site. So, he understands business.
Is UBC still a man's world?
Well, yes. We've been trying to up our ranks of women. When I was a business agent in Los Angeles, there was a little coffee shop we went to every morning, and the ladies in there worked really hard. I got three of those ladies in the carpenters’ union doing acoustical tile work.
You recruited them?
I recruited them.
Your annual letter talks about one vision to make a better life. How does UBC define a better life?
It's a decent wage where you can raise your family with health care and with a decent pension. You think about a carpenter building a building. You know, all the wealth that he creates in 30 to 35 years of work. He deserves a little piece of that wealth ... That resonates not only with our members, but when we talk to nonunion members.
