EMBERS MEETING
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 - 5:00PM
Knights of Columbus
112 Middlesex Avenue
Wilmington, MA
Cornhole tournament 9-21-25:Local 339 Member Engagement Program, Sunday, September 21, 2025, NOON, Knights of Columbus, 112 Middlesex Ave, Wilmington, MA
If you would like to compete in the Cornhole Tournament you need to RSVP! There will be 16 teams comprised of Members Only. The first 100 members will get a free t-shirt. Family and Friends are invited. Due to limited space, please RSVP by completing this link:
https://form.jotform.com/252373139243152
SAVE THE DATES: September 13th and September 16th – We will have more details shortly. If you are interested in holding signs and standing out in support of the New PreK-5 School email Jessica to put your name on a list Jlee@nasrcc.org Wilmington is having the residence vote on the new PreK-5 school with a Special Town Meeting on Saturday September 13th to authorize the project and financing plan. Tuesday September 16th a town wide vote to approve the temporary property tax increase mandated by the state.
CBA Wage Increase: September 1st Eastern Area wage increases $1.00 and $.25 to Health Benefits
UBC Mobile APP: This will replace work card ID’s - In the App store search “UBC Mobile”
Apprentices: Work reports must be turned in at monthly meetings, maximum of two per meeting. They are NOT accepted via email! Link for work reports: http://www.nasctf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/NASCTF-Work-Reports.pdf
Labor Day september 1, 2025: Peter J. McGuire: First UBC General Secretary. One of the great labor leaders of the 19th century, Peter J. McGuire helped found the UBC. He also served as the union’s first general secretary. Born to Irish immigrants, McGuire grew up on New York City’s Lower East Side. He left school at 11 to become the family’s breadwinner and later became an apprentice in the Haines Piano Shop. There McGuire was exposed to long hours, low wages, and difficult working conditions—reinforcing the pro-labor views he had absorbed as a sometime student at Cooper Union, a gathering spot for radicals. McGuire went on to lead a successful fight against wage cuts at Haines. Ultimately harassed out of his position, McGuire began moving from job to job as a journeyman. When work dried up during the 1870s depression, he began to march, speak, and rouse crowds of his fellow unemployed. In August 1881, he organized a Chicago convention, where 36 carpenters from 11 U.S. cities united to form a union for carpenters, and the UBC was born. A few months later, carpenters in Hamilton, Ontario became the first Canadian UBC members, and Toronto Carpenters joined in early 1882. McGuire spearheaded efforts that led to the eight-hour workday and the founding of the American Federation of Labor. During his UBC tenure, wages more than doubled, and by 1903 the North American UBC had grown to more than 167,000 members. McGuire’s legacy to American and Canadian workers lives on in Labor Day, a holiday he proposed.
