IL Governor Signs Wage Theft Bill
We’re focused on stomping out wage theft and this is one step toward leveling the playing field and holding cheating contractors available.
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Local 1 Delegate Talks About Overcoming Addiction
Dent talks about his history with drugs, how he was able to turn his life and around and how he was able to take control of his life.
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Local 1 Flips Riverwalk Deck Project
The project will now be built with Union Labor!
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Chicago Carpenters Training Center Welcomes All-Female Class
The nine-week program gave the women training in setting concrete forms, residential wood framing and erecting scaffolding.
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MACRC Carpenters Attend Journeyman Leadership Training
It was the first Journeymen Leadership training since our merger and attendees had a chance to get to know each other, learn new skills, and meet with EST Gary Perinar to ask questions about the latest Union initiatives.
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MACRC Members Hit the Streets for Tax Fraud Days of Action
Thanks again to all the Representatives, members, retirees & volunteers who hit the streets this week to educate the public about construction industry tax fraud. We blanketed every area of our jurisdiction with banners and handbills explaining how harmful tax fraud is to workers, our signatory contractors and the public at large. #StopTaxFraud
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Visit Our New In Memoriam Page
On our new In Memoriam page we honor our Brothers and Sisters who passed away in 2021. Please pause to reflect on the lifelong contributions that all of these members made on your behalf toward the betterment of or trade. Each Brother and Sister is an inspiration for us to carry on the torch they
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Mid-America Carpenters Union’s Wage Theft Bill Passes IL General Assembly
CHICAGO — Workers around the state have new protections to help ensure they are paid what’s owed to them under new legislation that passed the Illinois General Assembly on Friday. HB5412 makes a primary contractor liable for the failure of a subcontractor to pay wages owed to its workers. The subcontractor would in turn be
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Local 174 Carpenters Banner Future Planet Fitness
Multiple members have been out at the site showing that Union Carpenters will always show up to protect our work and future work to come.
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Former St. Louis-Kansas City EST Faces UBC Charges
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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