CARPENTERS QUIT AFL-CIO OVER FOCUS.

Authors :: Winston, Sherie
Source :: ENR: Engineering News-Record. 04/09/2001, Vol. 246 Issue 14, p10. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Discusses the withdrawal of the carpenters' union in from the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Unanimity of the union's board in disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO; Withdrawal of the carpenters from activities sponsored by the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department; Differences between AFL-CIO head John Sweeney and carpenters' union president Douglas McCarron.