New England Carpenters Union Names New Leader

Thomas J. Flynn named executive secretary-treasurer following Mark Erlich's retirement

March 28, 2017

The Executive Board of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) has named Thomas J. Flynn executive secretary-treasurer following the recent retirement of Mark Erlich. Flynn was sworn in to the position on March 1.

Construction Workers' Voices

Female Carpenter Loves Rough-and-Tumble Work

A damaged knee, but a healthy spirit

Luke Abaffy

July 7, 2016

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Natasha Arnold is the only 5’1” female carpenter’s apprentice working on San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center—the biggest transportation terminal on the West Coast.

Construction Workers' Voices

A Jack-of-All-Trades Finds His Niche in Construction

A former undocumented immigrant settles in to legal work with green card

Johanna Knapschaefer

July 7, 2016

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Late one spring night, Jose Lopez jumped a 10-ft concrete wall at the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana carrying only the $600 he had saved for his crossing.

Workers' Voices

Carpenter Quotes Dalai Lama to Reflect on Global Career

Oregonian Rex Symank, 66, shares job skills with a younger generation on a giant U.S. military base-construction project in South Korea.

Debra K. Rubin

July 6, 2016

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Rex Symank, 66, is sharing four decades of experience with a younger generation on the U.S. military’s largest-ever base-construction project in South Korea.

Central South Carpenters Opens 23,000-sq-ft Training Center in New Orleans

Craig Guillot

December 9, 2015

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The Central South Carpenters Regional Council has opened its new $12.5 million training facility in New Orleans, featuring 23,000 sq ft of training space for carpenters and millwrights.

ENR

Nov 11, 2019

Environmental activists have their work cut out for them as they focus their energies on eliminating embodied carbon— the building sector’s intangible climate adversary.

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