WHAT WE STAND FOR

Since 1881 our objectives are

• To organize all construction workers so they can have a unified voice in the workplace.
• To encourage training programs for a higher standard of skill, productivity and quality on the job.
• To develop, improve and enforce safe/clean working conditions.
• To cultivate friendship among workers and help improve our communities,
• To assist each other to secure employment.
• To reduce the hours of daily labor so we can rest on the weekend.
• To secure adequate pay for our labor and establish a weekly payday.
• To promote fringe benefits containing family health care coverage and pension for retirement.
• To take wages out of the competition for jobs, so they are not based on who will work for less
• To elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions for all construction workers.

WHY ORGANIZE

        We organize for Collective Bargaining Strength in an effort to influence the Construction Market, so we can negotiate a higher standard for all construction workers. Organizing enables the Union to win better wages and benefits for our Membership. Then we and our families may thrive and we can retire with dignity after a career in the construction field.

        Facts show Construction Market Areas where a majority of the workers are Unionized those workers enjoy higher wages and better benefits, because Contractors must negotiate with those workers as a group. If the group controls the supply of labor those workers are in a stronger position to establish their wage and benefits in that Market Area.

        Without a Union workers lack the protection of a Union Contract and are forced to negotiate individually with the Boss and each time you go to another employer you must begin the process all over again. When a majority of workers are not Organized a competition for jobs has a downward pressure on everyone's wages, because Companies are profit driven and they want to pay less.       

You Have Rights

        Under the protection of The United States Government, National Labor Relations Act. Section 7.

        EMPLOYEES shall have the right to Self-Organization, to form, join, or assist Labor Organizations, to Bargain Collectively through Representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a Labor Organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(A)(3)

       Section 8(A)(1)

        It shall be unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed by section 7.

       Section B(A)(3)

        Forbids an employer to discriminate against employees "in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization.

       What This Means it means that Construction Workers in this Area have a FREE CHOICE in deciding whether to USE their RIGHTS to ORGANIZE or not. Anything that an employer does to interfere with this FREE CHOICE is against the low. It means that it is illegal for an employer to penalize any employee in any manner because of union activity or belief, This includes such things as cutting out overtime, transferring to a less desirable job, suspension, or discharge. If proven, the employer has committed an UNFAIR labor practice, the employer must reinstate with pay.

HOW TO ORGANIZE

        We WELCOME ALL INQUIRES!

        Discuss it among your friends who work construction!

         Form an alliance among co-workers interested in addressing question facing construction workers. Union representatives are available to answer your calls and meet to Discuss How to Organize and Why Wages and benefits in this area should be at a higher standard for ALL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS!

        It takes a Majority of workers in a Construction Market Area working together to be effective in raising the standard, And that's called Labor Movement!

        When workers join together in concerted activity throughout this area and regain true Bargaining Power, there we can begin to achieve our goals, Respect and our fair share of what we produce.