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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, February 01, 2004 ::
Looking out for the working man By Kathy Heicher, Vail Daily
In this valley, where the trend seems to be that any person who can swing a hammer can declare themselves a carpenter, trade unions aren't a dominant factor on the labor scene.
Still, there have been labor activists in the valley for decades, and trade unions do have a historical presence, particularly on larger commercial and public projects. During the building boom of the 1970s, union leaders say, they could man a big commercial job in the valley with all local union hands. Jim Gleason, president of the Mountain West Regional Council of Carpenters, says he remembers a time when there were four or five different carpenter's unions on the Western Slope; and 30 to 40 percent of the carpenters working in the area were union affiliated.------------------------------------------- posted 8:50 AM :: reference link ::
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