Why Organize?
We organize for one simple reason - to better the lives of all men and women
who work at our trades. Through organizing, we increase our market share.
More market share means more strength at the bargaining table, and better
contracts. Better contracts means more money in our members pockets, better
health insurance for our members and their families, more money in our members pensions,
better conditions on the jobsite, and through all of these, better lives for all
who work at our trades.
The objectives of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters guide our organizing
efforts:
To organize workers, to encourage an apprenticeship system and a higher
standard of skill, to develop, improve and enforce the program and standards of
Occupational Safety and Health, to cultivate friendship, to develop good public
relations in the community, to assist each other to secure employment, to reduce
the hours of daily labor, to secure adequate pay for our work, to establish a
weekly pay day, to promote the establishment of fringe benefit plans for our
members through the collective bargaining process, to coordinate bargaining
toward the goal of taking wages out of competition, and by legal and proper
means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all our
members and to improve the trade in every way possible.
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