Council News

Second Vice President Gary Perinar by delegate vote on July 7, 2018, was formally elected to succeed Frank T. Libby as Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters’ executive secretary-treasurer.

The new Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters app is now available in iTunes, Google Play and the Amazon Fire Store!

The schedule for season 5 of Built to Last® is now available!

More Americans view long-term decline in union membership negatively than positively. A 68% majority of those ages 18 to 29 hold a positive view of unions.

Thank you to the businesses, service providers and construction contractors who wisely choose to partner with union labor, leveraging the productivity and second-to-none skill and safety training of the finest workers around. 

Listen to the WGN Radio interview of Terrence Roche and George Tuhowski about the amount of construction in Chicago, the importance of changing the way people view construction jobs, why there is a need for younger people to learn a trade and much more.

The grand opening is Sat., June 9, 9:00 a.m. to noon, 4979 Indiana Ave., Lisle, IL.

Janus could take this double standard to an entirely new level by effectively forcing wage cuts on 5 million workers and shrinking our nation’s economy.

The painting, Kerry James Marshall’s “Past Times,” sold for $21.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York, nearly 900 times the $25,000 that the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority spent on it in 1997.