The proposal seeks to speed up future prevailing wage updates, ensuring prevailing wage rates keep up with the cost of living and could mean higher wages for workers.
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An internal investigation conducted by the UBC found Bond allegedly committed multiple violations including misappropriation of funds and defrauding the brotherhood.
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With more than 52,000 members, the MACRC is one of the biggest, most powerful regional councils in the UBC and the future is bright for our members.
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By: Bryan T. Benke, MBAFLJAP Coordinator Changing with the Times With an everchanging industry, construction workers face the challenge of staying certified and knowledgeable of changes both within the industry as well as with customers. The St. Louis Floorlayers Joint Apprenticeship Program has begun preparing our workforce for these obstacles. Realizing that many customers in
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Recently Chicagoland Union Carpenters and Representatives joined Local 58 rallying against Cedar Street and Method Construction. Rats and fat cats were seen lining streets in Uptown exposing the contractors taking advantage of workers and failing to pay area standards. Other building trades joined the carpenters and talked with local business owners and residents about the
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On Feb. 8, the St. Louis County Council voted 6-1 to reinstate a rule requiring bidders for most county projects to participate in federally approved apprenticeship programs. The program means more work for Union Carpenters in St. Louis and a win for the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council. St. Louis County Councilwoman Shalonda Webb sponsored the
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Kansas City Regional Director Rocky Kloth stopped by several job sites recently to hand out new T-shirts to the KC area members. Kloth and area Representatives visited jobsites and spoke to the members about the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council merger and answered questions they had. The group also stopped by the new 192,000 square-foot Lee’s
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The projects mean more work for our members across the entire region.
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Local 58 Delegate Tammy Guilinger says she’s always had a passion for construction even when she was forced to take Home Economics in high school. “I could look over and see the guys in drafting class and think, ‘I want to be in there so bad,’ so bad that I burnt my cookies,” Guilinger said.
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EST Perinar recently spoke with the Quad-City Times about our brand new, 55,000-square foot carpenters and millwrights training center being built in East Moline, IL. The new training center will replace two existing training facilities in the area and represents an investment into the future of the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council where many will undergo
