Member Organizing Committee (M.O.C)
Third Wednesday of Every Month @ 5:30 PM
Local 405 Union Hall
Being involved in a MOC is a great way to meet other Brothers and Sisters in the Carpenters union, learn more about the construction industry, and help increase the effectiveness of the union.
Carpenters Local 405 Covers Santa Clara and San Benito Counties, based in the Bay Area they volunteer each year for things Like picket lines, hand billing, political action, membership education programs, rallies, community charity events, help and assist our retirees and whatever its needed to gain, protect and maintain our market share.
The M.O.C. committees help with supporting campaign committees, such as standouts and phone banking. We are also very involved in local politics attending School Board’s Meetings, Planning Board & Zoning Board Meetings as well as making and holding signs for our local politicians. We watch the areas for jobs that may be going on that are not union. Going to town meetings and trying to get information on up and coming jobs in the area that will benefit you the member for future work. We believe it is very important to be active in our own Communities.
There are many things that our M.O.C. has done to benefit Local 405, and we need your help to make the future better for our members. This is your local and the future depends on you! Please talk us up on the jobs and get members involved, we will all benefit, and we need your help!
For Information on volunteering and helping out at some of our local events please contact 405.
Carpenter-to-Carpenter organizing is, and always will be, the backbone of our organizing efforts. Nothing can replace carpenters talking with carpenters to spread our principles and elevated our trades. We face many obstacles in organizing, and we must use "every tool in our box" to accomplish our goals.
Our goal, to increase our market share to 75% or more in all our markets for all our trades, will allow us to set the standards for our industry.
Why Organize? We organize for one simple reason - to better the lives of all men and women who work at our trades. Through organizing, we increase our market share. More market share means more strength at the bargaining table, and better contracts. Better contracts means more money in our members pockets, better health insurance for our members and their families, more money in our members pensions, better conditions on the jobsite, and through all of these, better lives for all who work at our trades. The objectives of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters guide our organizing efforts: To organize workers, to encourage an apprenticeship system and a higher standard of skill, to develop, improve and enforce the program and standards of Occupational Safety and Health, to cultivate friendship, to develop good public relations in the community, to assist each other to secure employment, to reduce the hours of daily labor, to secure adequate pay for our work, to establish a weekly pay day, to promote the establishment of fringe benefit plans for our members through the collective bargaining process, to coordinate bargaining toward the goal of taking wages out of competition, and by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of all our members and to improve the trade in every way possible. |
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The different types of organizing campaigns include:
- Top down: Contractor relations and training opportunities
- Bottom-up: Building worker relationships and ownership
Each type of campaign has its own advantages and disadvantages. But together, they form a comprehensive strategy that has proven more successful than either one by itself.
THE BROTHERHOOD IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FUTURE
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR BROTHERHOOD.
