This is the grave of Peter J. Maguire. Born in 1852 in New York, Peter Maguire grew up very poor, in an Irish Catholic family that had immigrated to the U.S. like so many during the potato famine and the general terrible economic conditions of...
united brotherhood of carpenters
This is super inside baseball, but here's the deal--the United Brotherhood of Carpenters was very supportive of the new bills in California to allow for more housing to be built..
Rachel Cohen with a great piece on how California YIMBYs got unions on board. Today, though, a major sea change is happening across California, with some unions now either actively.
The relationship between organized labor and immigration is complicated, to say the least. For many decades, far too long, the labor movement was outright opposed to immigration, partially on the ground of a higher population undermining wages and partly on the grounds of whiteness. In...
Upon reading this, you might think it's nice that a son is helping his father doing his construction labor over the summer. But then you realize that this sort of.
The systematic sexism inherent in most American work is particularly strong in the building trades, where sexism, work tradition, and popular perception all combine to make women a rare sight.
On October 19, 1935, the American Federation of Labor was holding its convention in Atlantic City. While usually a staid affair, this convention was rocked by a fight on stage between United Mine Workers of American president John L. Lewis and United Brotherhood of Carpenters...