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Research Guide Main Page > List of Record Surveys >
CARPENTERS
LOCAL 24
500 Main Street
Yalesville, CT 06492
203-265-6242
597 Broad Street
New London, CT 06320
860-442-6655
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America was formed in August of 1881 by carpenters from eleven U.S. cities. For information about its history, go to http://www.carpenters.org/history.
Local 24 covers all of Southeastern Connecticut (from Orange to the Rhode Island line), much of Northeastern Connecticut (from Union and Willington to the Rhode Island line), and much of Central Connecticut.
Local 79, the original New Haven local, merged with Waterbury Local 260 in 1971. Both merged into Local 24 in 1974, as did a number of smaller locals from towns throughout the state. Other locals merged later. There are four charters of the original locals in the office on Main Street in Wallingford, although New Haven’s is not among them. The New London/ Norwich local, Local 30, merged into Local 24 in the early 1980s, and Local 24 has kept the union hall open in New London.
Structure of Local 24
Executive Board
President: Charles Appleby
Vice President: Bruce Lydem
Recording Secretary: William Callahan
Treasurer: Andy Hendrickson
Financial Secretary: Jeff Wolcheski
Warden: Bob Canny
Conductor: John Rivera
Trustees: Sam Barile; Margaret Conable; Roger Doyon
Staff
Business Manager: Charles Appleby
Director of Organizing: Bruce Lydem
Business Representatives: Bob Beauregard; Bill Callahan; Jay Zupan
Organizers:Margaret Conable; Bob Corriveau; Ted Duarte; Tim Sullivan; Jeff Wolcheski
Office Manager: Sylvia Michetti
Secretaries; Pam Brown; Kristen Daniels
For many years the carpenters’ locals in Connecticut were members of the Connecticut State Council of Carpenters. In the mid-1990s, the Carpenters’ Union adopted a regional structure (locally, the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, based in Boston), with an increased emphasis on organizing. This structure was adopted because contractors also operate on a regional basis.
Some functions continue to be organized at the state level; Local 43 (greater Hartford area) and Local 210 (western Connecticut) participate with Local 24 in the apprentice program and the benefit funds. The organizing department and the contractor relations department also operate statewide.
In the late 1990s, a statewide women’s committee was formed to represent active women members. In addition, there is a newly chartered Retirees’ Local, Local 96, composed of retired members of the three Connecticut locals. Its Treasurer, Frederick J. Schurk, Sr., was a member of the original Local 79 (and, incidentally, also of Local 35 at Yale.) The retirees’ group includes several other members of Local 79. Note that the industrial local at Electric Boat, Local 1302, is not part of these statewide structures but has an important history of its own.
According to the President of Local 24, Charles Appleby, the union’s greatest success has been “organizing and increasing the market share for union carpenters and union companies in Connecticut.” Its greatest challenge is “organizing in today’s environment.” The struggle is to “make the public and the legislature aware of the needs of the labor movement;” and, specifically, to combat corporate America’s attempt to find loopholes in state and federal labor law in order to prevent workers from organizing unions.
THE RECORDS
Current and past membership records are kept on a computerized database at the international level, and are confidential. The Office Manager and Representatives keep all types of current records, including membership, financial, current agreements, etc.
Local 24’s storage area contains numerous records of important historic value. These include materials which relate to the original New Haven Local, 79, as well as the Connecticut State Council of Carpenters.
The records include: verbatim proceedings of the State Council as well as individual meeting minutes of the Council, from the 1960s through 1990; agreements between Local 79 and the Employers Association (1968, 1977); agreements between Local 79 and Baker-Firestone, 1970; Local 79 payroll books, 1943-1953, 1954-1957; attendance records at Local 79 meetings 1963-1974; miscellaneous correspondence of all types, 1970s and 1980s; and numerous types of financial records.
For more information about the records and how to access them for research purposes, contact: Charles Appleby, Business Manager, 203-265-6242