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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, February 06, 2004 ::
Articles about the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) By Mike Pesa
I am a senior history major at Kent State with a passion for labor justice. In Fall 2003, I participated in an internship through the New York City UnionSemester program, which temporarily places students with an NYC labor union from 9 to 5 (or in my case 8 to 4) and also includes evening classes on U.S. Labor History, Contemporary Labor Issues, and a credit-optional class on New York City Culture and Politics. I was placed with the New York City District Council of Carpenters, a unit representing ten locals affiliated with the national ( some Canadians) United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC). Apparently the Carpenters wanted me because they needed someone with writing abilities to work on their magazine. While I did that, and many other miscellaneous tasks, I took in everything I could about the union and how it functioned. I didn't like a lot of what I saw, but I also found plenty of potential for positive change. Below are some documents I wrote about the Carpenters, based on my first hand knowledge, as well as the testimony of some dissident members from Carpenters for a Democratic Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the latter of which I am a member. I hope that student labor activists, frustrated workers, and union reformers find this information useful. Despite my use of satire and humor throughout much of my writing, I want to emphasize that this is not a website for armchair radicals to get off on and do nothing about it. The words that follow are intended for people who take the rank and file workers of the building trades seriously and want to struggle side by side with them as equals.
In time, I hope to expand this site to include be a much more extensive labor website, with the Carpenters page being only one part of it. I also hope to use this site to start building a project I am working on for the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), that I call 'Labor and the Environment'. Please check back every so often for updates, and email me at mpesa@kent.edu if you have any comments or ideas.
In Solidarity,
Mike Pesa, Feb. 03, 2004------------------------------------------- posted 7:06 AM :: reference link ::
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