Eating Their Own: 600 IBEW Members Picket Carpenters’ Union Hall

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 8th at 01:15 AM  | 

Nationwide, unemployment reached 9.8% last week. However, in the construction industry, unemployment is nearly 19%. This is causing union bosses to think ‘outside the box’ on how to get work for their unemployed members–even if it includes stepping onto other unions’ turf. In April, the Carpenters’ union in St. Louis did what, in the union building trades, is the unthinkable–it set up an electrical union | Read More »