Member Resources:

Volunteer Organizing Committee (VOC) - Join a Chicagoland Volunteer Organizing Committee and help get more work for you, your brothers and your sisters. Click here for locations, maps, dates and times.

Dues Check Off Delinquency Payments - Do not use to pay Local Union Dues!  Use only after receiving an invoice for a payment shortage from the Dues Check Off Department. Thank you.

Click here to make Dues Check Off payments

 

Legal Information Hotline:

About the Hotline

877-694-2663

 

Pension & Welfare:

312-787-9455

 

Vision Service:

800-334-7591

 

BlueCross BlueShield:

800-810 BLUE (2583)

www.bcbs.com

 

Mental Illness/Substance Abuse:

800-495-4422

 

 

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Links:

To Find Work Contact Your Local

 

Search for work
You can look up contractors online to search for work in Illinois and Wisconsin. Go to www.thebluebook.com select your state and then type in “carpenter” to get a list of union and non-union contractors. After selecting your category, click on the “P” in the orange box on the right hand side to get a Profile of the contractor that includes: union affiliation, phone, fax, email, address, person to contact, recent projects completed, geographical areas serviced and types of projects they work on.
 

Carpenters Skill Advancement Program

In the last 15 years the Carpenter Skill Advancement Program (CSAP) has grown to 300 classroom and hands-on classes offered every six months in a wide range of general knowledge, general skill, special skill, certification and safety classes. 40,000 schedules are printed twice a year and sent to all members and signatory contractors. Last year 7,100 apprentices or journeymen applied for this training to advance their careers.

Classes are from 3 to 40 hours long, being taught in English, Spanish, and Polish. Most CSAP classes are offered at the Elk Grove Village center, with more being offered at the Chicago, Joliet, and Elgin centers every year. Cost is from free for any safety class to $99 for the Supervisory Training (STP) classes, with most classes from $20 to $45. Some local unions reimburse students for a completed class. 

 

For contact Information for all CRCC Training Centers

click here

 

Apprenticeship Program Information

The  Regional Council of Carpenters Apprentice and Training Program provides many separate four-year apprenticeships. Click here to see the programs.
 

 

 

Members Making a Difference:

   

Carpenters rally for the Employee Free Choice Act

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

Hundreds of members from the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters joined thousands of other organized labor members in a rally to support the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) on February 17th at Plumbers’ Hall in Chicago. Many national union leaders and politicians also attended.
Working people are struggling to get by, and America’s middle class is disappearing fast. But when workers try to form unions and bargain for better benefits, wages, and working conditions corporations use coercion and harassment to stop them.
This Bill protects a workers right to organize; it is being called the most important labor law reform in more than 40 years.

The Employee Free Choice Act would:
• Establish stronger penalties when companies violate the rights of workers forming unions and negotiating first contracts.
• Provide mediation and arbitration when workers and the employer can’t agree on a first contract.
• It gives workers a choice between secret ballots and majority sign-up.


 

Local 13 carpenter honored by Governor

 

          

 

When he stepped off the elevator at Teamster City, Local 13 carpenter Dan Biggane saw an unconscious man sprawled on the floor before him. The man had no pulse. Fortunately, Dan had completed CPR training, so he took immediate action. For five minutes, which to Dan seemed like forever, he administered CPR until the fire department arrived.“I kept screaming at him,” said Dan. “Come on. You are going to live. If I have to push your chest to your spine, you are going to live.”
Thankfully, he did survive and Dan, the firefighters and the paramedics were honored by Governor Pat Quinn on February 13 at a ceremony at the State of Illinois Building.Dan is not the only carpenter who has saved lives in recent years: Brian Meechan saved a child from choking; Pat Hagerty saved a boy at a train station; Adam Gutierrez and John Reynolds gave CPR to victims of a car crash; and Jan Kluzura used CPR to save a man who had fallen down an elevator shaft.


Thanks to Local 13 Representatives Mike Sexton and Tommy Ryan for sending Dan to CPR training.
“This stuff works, guys,” added Dan. “Take the class. If I can do it, you can, too.”

 

 

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Training Center featured on WGN-TV Morning News

The Around Town segment of the WGN-TV Morning News featured live broadcasts from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. from the Carpenters Apprentice and Training Center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois on Thursday May 29th. Click here for the photos and story. Click here for a video summary of the live broadcasts.

 

 

 

Short Video - Open House draws crowds to Training Center

Over 4,000 carpenters and their families feasted on free hot dogs, brats, soft drinks and snacks, while brave kids scaled a 40 foot rock climb, marveled at the Jesse White Tumblers and had the opportunity to see the Goodwin Motorsports late model race car sponsored by the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters. Click on this link to see the 6 minute and 36 second video (Hey, it's home-movie quality, so do not expect Hollywood) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7W3lkpMLfw