United Brotherhood of Carpenters UBC San Francisco Local 22 rank and file members are protesting discrimination and the lack of enforcement of residency hiring agreements. Rank and file carpenters are charging that Bobby Alvarado the head of the Northern California District Council of Carpenters is hiring business agents who have never worked as carpenters and also that these business agents are not enforcing existing contracts and allowing discrimination.

Local 22 carpenters charge that they are not getting jobs that have been guaranteed for residents under residential hiring programs and instead some are being told to go to Stockton to work. At the same time under the control of Northern California District Council of Carpenters head Bobby Alverado, new business agents have been assigned in San Francisco who have never been carpenters to positions as business agents in San Francisco.

Problems facing carpenters have increased as a result of the growing mass unemployment in the construction industry.

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