Matt Ragsdale

Union Organizers Help New Members Grow Their Career

The momentum is building through our Organizing Department workshops and seminars. All part of our mission to grow while changing and improving lives but the real impact happens in the field. This season alone, dozens of non-union carpenters have found a new path and a stronger future as union carpenters. We’re strengthening our team, raising […]

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Union Carpenters Renovate Interactive Museum

MACRC Carpenters working for Hartline Construction are working on a renovation project at Missouri Town Living History Museum. The outdoor museum sits just outside of Kansas City, MO, and gives visitors a taste of what life was like in the 1800s. The interactive village features many historical homes and buildings, some over 100 years old.

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Carpenters Perform Total Package On Kansas Middle School

Union Carpenters are performing the total carpenter package on a new middle school in southern Johnson County, Kansas. Wolf Springs Middle School will be a state of the art facility when it opens in the fall. Members working for signatory contractors United CSI, Epic, Briarwood, Image Flooring and INSCO are doing it all on this

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Applications Open For Concrete Form Builders

Applications are now open for our Concrete Form Building Apprenticeship Program. Come learn from the best of the best and start your rock solid career today! The application period for the Concrete Form Builder Program is now open and will close on February 19, 2026, at 3:00 PM. Applications are only accepted during this time frame, so we encourage

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Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Adds Iowa and Nebraska To Its Jurisdiction Under International Union Restructuring

The Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council has grown its jurisdictional boundaries to include the states of Iowa and Nebraska in a restructuring that makes the five-state Regional Council one of the largest carpenters’ Councils in the country with more than 57,000 union carpenters in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa and Nebraska. Recently, General President Douglas McCarron

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Union Carpenters Work On Museum Honoring Emmett Till’s Legacy

What a turnout we had for demo day on a new project in Chicago restoring the childhood home of Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till into a museum commemorating the Till Family legacy of courage and forgiveness. Working with other trades, our members will be installing new windows at the restored building that will house a

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Chicago Carpenters Build New Addition At Millennium Park

There may not be a lot of sunshine these days, but when it returns there’ll be a new spot to catch some shade at the South Boeing Gallery in Chicago’s Millennium Park thanks to a new reclaimed timber pavilion crafted and installed by MACRC carpenters! This partnership with Chicago Architectural Biennial, Millennium Park, Skidmore, Owens

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