How Do You Join A Carpenter Union?
Joining a union can help you protect your job and help ensure that you will be paid fairly and work under safe conditions. Labor unions protect the rights of workers by fighting for their members’ rights and to guarantee that they will have a pension when they retire. Unions also can help their members find affordable health care. Carpenters’ unions, like most labor unions, strive to create a more stable and productive workforce. Choose which union you would like to join. Ask your fellow carpenters which union they belong to and if they would recommend that you join. Contact the local office or council of the union that you wish to join. For example, if you are planning to join the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, go to the Union’s website and click on the link, “How to Join.” This will bring you to a page with a link for more information on how to find your local council. This, in turn, will then bring you to a page with a feature that will allow you to search for local representativ
