Carpenters’ Chief Expected to Survive Reelection Challenge
Douglas J. McCarron, seeking his third term as carpenters union president, hailed the unions withdrawal from the AFL-CIO nearly five years ago as a trailblazing action that was good for members.
In his opening day speech Aug. 22 at the carpenters 39th general convention in Las Vegas, McCarron told approximately 2,000 delegates that the AFL-CIO "chose to spend our money on...consultants in [Washington] D.C. and not on the carpenters in the workplace."