“Workers represented by labor unions earn 10.2% higher wages than their non-union peers, have better benefits and collectively raise wages industry-wide, according to a report released by the House and Senate committees on Friday and first shared with the Guardian.”

Well duh! It is nice to see a study that helps prove being part of a union pays.

EAS Carpenter Stanley Friday was one of the brave soldiers that stormed Normandy on D-Day. Listen to his story.

“The ICRA program saves lives … By implementing the ICRA standards, those responsible for patient safety are helping everyone, from the patients to the doctors, the staff, the visitors and even the passerby on the street.” said Tom Bender, Council Representative and ICRA Director.

EAS Carpenters and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America are implementing the UBC 24-hour ICRA best practices program to train members on how to properly contain hazards on work sites.

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EAS Carpenters stood in solidarity with the Baltimore DC Metro Building Trades Council – BDCBT to demand the agreed upon Project Labor Agreement on the Purple Line is used.

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“I hope I can be somewhat of an influence for members who aren’t sure about continuing their education or making a bigger impact at work … College isn’t for everyone, but this industry needs more builders who can handle the logistics of the business and still throw on a toolbelt to hang some sheet-rock.” Local 167 Member Dan Patrick.

Dan was announced as the recipient of the Outstanding Student Award from Jefferson School of Continuing Studies. Congratulations Dan!

Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Secretary of Labor & Industry Jennifer Berrier filed comments in support of the U.S. Department of Labor proposed updated regulations to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.

4th Year Apprentices out of the Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center competed in the annual Skills Expo this month. Every year the Pittsburgh Carpenters Training Center looks to provide their carpenters and the public with an Open House and Skills Expo that allows carpenter apprentices to use their skills to show future students and community leaders what apprentices can do.

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“The offshore wind industry is coming … America has been behind in it. It’s coming this way, and we want to be sure that we have the best trained, most skilled, safest American workers to build these turbines for American consumers,” Communication Director, Frank Mahoney.

With the opening of the EAS Carpenters Dive School in Sicklerville NJ, the #EASCarpenters are preparing its members and workers across the country for the Offshore Wind industry.

SICKLERVILLE, N.J. — On an overcast day last week, a union carpenter welded steel plates together at the bottom of a man-made lake as interested onlookers gathered around a laptop on a floating barge above to watch a live-feed video of his work….

The Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Committee of Philadelphia & Vicinity is looking to continue its long tradition of training a qualified workforce that is prepared to ensure the most challenging construction projects can be completed safely and ahead of schedule.

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Member: Steven Stokes, Local 255 Council Representative
Branch: Army

TBT – Council Rep Stokes details his service during the 9/11 terrorist attack in the first-person narrative link in our bio. Visit to read his experience in Washington DC on that day.

Armed Forces Day is this Saturday and we are honoring members across our council that are either active or past Military service members. Thank you for your service!

4th-Year Apprentices out of the Joint Apprentice Carpenters Training Center in Philadelphia & Vicinity competed in the annual Skills Contest this past Friday.

“This business, the tradespersons’ world, the carpenters, is about competition … We want to be the best and we want to teach our students to strive to be the best.” Director Robert Landy.

Click to read more about the contest and what it means to the apprentices and construction industry from 6abc Action News

“People feel voiceless and powerless, because they don’t have a backup from anybody,” Francisco Esparza, Council representative for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

(The new EAS Carpenters Dive School in Sicklerville, NJ) is going to be unique and will be a great facility to augment what we are doing to prepare our members for the offshore wind industry and all the new technologies related to the state’s renewable energy initiatives.” EST William Sproule.

Click to learn more about what’s being offered at our Dive School from New Jersey Business Magazine .

“As a trade union, we try to bring up the everyday worker so they are not taken advantage of … With wind and solar coming, if this is the wave of the future, we need to set precedence with health insurance, a retirement plan. … If they would have came in here with a family-sustaining wage, we’d be fine with it.” Local 423 Council Representative Michael Regan.

Poor area wages at the Portage Township Solar Farm in PA is affecting the construction industry and creating pushback from EAS Carpenters.

“You never know if you’ve done too much or if you’ve gone overboard when it comes to ICRA protocols and following OSHA mandates, but you find out quickly if you didn’t do enough.” Local 432 Council Representative Tom Bender.

UBC ICRA training and implementation was featured in a ForConstructionPros.com article for Construction Safety Week. EAS Carpenters are the best trained and most skilled construction workers and ensure safety at all job site.

Blackstone’s $50 Million investment in workforce development is a major announcement and shows New Jersey will be a leader in the offshore wind industry.

EAS Carpenters new facilities, the Heavy Construction, Pile Driving & Offshore Wind Training Facility in Hammonton, NJ and the new EAS Carpenters Dive School in Sicklerville, NJ, will supply foundational skills, including concrete formwork, pile driving, rigging and more.

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Atlantic Power Transmission recently committed to a $50 million investment to Offshore Wind workforce development in New Jersey.

“It will help create more jobs in the construction industry as well as give us the ability to recruit new members into our union, into our apprenticeship, and provide them with career training and life-sustaining jobs with good pay and benefits.” EST William Sproule

Click to read more from New Jersey Business Magazine .

22 workers received a total of $54,326 for their claims of wage theft by two drywall subcontractors on the General Assembly Building project in #Virginia.

“It was great to see the workers get the payments they deserve,” #EASCarpenters Communication Director, Frank Mahoney.

Click on the link below to read more from Richmond Times-Dispatch

EAS Carpenters attended the PA Society for Health Education Conference in Harrisburg PA last week to learn and discuss better practices on the job site and how the ICRA team can properly prepare members.

To learn more about how the ICRA team protects members, click below.

The cost of misclassification is painful, pervasive and persistent. It takes advantage of honest workers who fall prey to a system that deprives them of their legitimate workplace rights. Imagine working overtime yet not getting paid or not having health insurance if you get hurt on the job.

“You can see the pain in their eyes, they need these jobs, they have to put up with it,” Mutts said. “These companies are cutting corners. It’s an underground enterprise – a criminal enterprise.”

Leaders from the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters said that tax fraud and misclassification – the act of companies classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees – results in lost benefits for workers and places a financial burden on taxpayers. – Click to read more…

Maryland lawmakers voted to override Governor Larry Hogan’s veto on Senate Bill 1. State labor department officials will now be able to issue a stop-work order for a worksite where the official determines a contractor may have violated prevailing wage requirements.

Big news for MD Workers! Thank you to all the members that spoke out on this bill.

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“Zechariah Greenspan, 37, owner of Mulberry Management in Lakewood #NJ was indicted July 7, 2021, on second-degree charges of insurance fraud, theft by deception, and misconduct by a corporate official for allegedly providing false and misleading statements in order to obtain lower premiums on the workers’ compensation insurance he is legally obligated to provide employees.”
New Jersey enforcement officials have taken on unscrupulous contractors and are defending NJ workers who are being victimized by construction industry tax fraud.

The winners of the 2021 Union Carpenters Action Network (UCAN) grand prizes have been announced. Winners were drawn at the EAS Carpenters Delagate Meeting

Breaking News! AG Karl Racine announces Dynamic Contracting Inc. must pay over $1 Million to resolve workers’ rights lawsuit that will directly benefit impacted workers.

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Tax Fraud Days of Action 2022 is 1 Week Away! Read United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America General President Douglas J. McCarron’s piece on the plight vulnerable working families are facing due to construction industry Tax Fraud

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