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No Balls?
NYCDCC Women’s softball team 2006 called “No Balls”
NO Problem!!!A Photographic
History Of
the Sisters in
the NYDCCDana Havas, Linnea Nelson, and
Torie Aldrich
The First Women in the UBC were admitted in 1918 by default as the Union Absorbed a boxmakers local
• The women boxmakers were received begrudgingly
• They received no international benefits
1957• The UBC Constitution was amended to include the term
“sister” to represent the 8,864 women in the brotherhood
1978
Left: Dorthy Comneck, a 20+ year member and New York Civil Service Carpenter
Right: Connie Reyes, an activist and single mother who became the first female student at New York’s Labor Technical College
1979• United Tradeswomen is formed to address the
concerns of the growing number of tradeswomen in NYC
Including a young Elly Spicer
They Print Newsletters
They hold meetings and talk about common issues such as:
Sexual Harassment
At right: Irene Soloway, United Tradeswomen Co-founder and Pioneer of Sister’s Activism.
Pregnancy Rights
Lisa Narducci, 20+ yr.
Local 157 member
& How To Organizeand Build Membership
With sisters like young Star Reed, currentlya 20+ yearand Local 608 member
They Organized Demonstrations
UT protests hiring
discrimination at
Convention Center site
where less than 1 in
150 workers are women
Get illegally fired tradeswomenRE-HIRED after contractors tell
them “There is No Work Here For WOMEN”
“Fair Treatment NOW!”Irene Soloway
Fight alongside workers
from around the
nation for total Union
Democracy
United Tradeswomen write to Leadership, asking for backing of a
women’s committee
Leaders respond saying women “experience more
abuses as secretaries than they do on construction
sites”
Hmmmm….
But Despite Opposition…
Women Worked
Early 80’s
NEW fights for representation on federally
funded jobsites such as the North River
Water Pollution Project
Where Rebecca Lurie worked and many
women got their start
Rebecca Lurie, 20+ year member of Local 608 and former Steering Committee member
1983
• 500 tradeswomen gather in California for National Tradeswomen Conference. 40 are from the UBC
1990’s
• Slow growth of Women Membership…
• NEW grows..
• UT dismantles
• Ad hoc committees continue to organize
In 2000, UBC Women
form Sisters in the
Brotherhood, their
own official committee
2002
First ever International UBC Women’s
Conference in Las Vegas
Mike Forde sends 6 sisters from New York
This Committee was officially recognized
They prove a woman’s place is in her UNION…
23 NYCDCC women attend 2nd UBC conference in 2005
They met with Doug MCCarron
(r. to l) Mary Ann Addorisio, Linnea Nelson, Doug McCarron, Elly Spicer, Nefertari Barnes
Rebecca Lurie, Dorthy Comneck, Doug McCarron,
Catherine Swain, Gracie Morgan
They eat shrimp…
Most importantly, they ORGANIZED!
2006Elly Spicer becomes the 1st Woman
Delegate in NY
2008: Liz Sgroi first woman delegate elected for local 157
Hey, it’s a start…
Progress?
In 1980 there were 30 women in the NYDCC:
today there are over 450 active sisters
Into The 80’s Sisters’ presence felt
Lynda Lyday & Chryse Gibson of Local 608
Win apprenticeship contest in 1980’s
Joining the ranks of sisters making history is Dana Havas, Local 157
Winner of Interior Systems Golden Hammer in 2007
2008: FIVE women compete in the apprentice contest!!!!!
Diane Marinconz
Jessica Smith
Caro MarreroEmily Huffman
Stephanie Lawal
2006
Co-workers throw Djar
Horn a Baby Shower on
the jobsite
2006
Steering Committee
Member Kathleen
Klohe’s son Zach enters
the apprenticeship
school. Adding to the
history of mother-son
duos
Be Proud
June 2008: Sisters marched for the first time in NYC’s Pride parade
And we work HARD…
Star Reed
We form bonds…
Erin Fass, Andrea Jaco, Linnea Nelson at Tradeswomen’s Mother’s Day rally in 2002
And we’re here to stay
Elaine Stanley, Sandra Quinones, Olga Aguilar (An all women apprentice crew) with their foreman John Lewis.