No Balls?

1. No Balls? ` NYCDCC Women’s softball team 2006 called “No Balls”

2. NO Problem!!! A Photographic History Of the Sisters in the NYDCC Dana Havas, Linnea Nelson, and Torie Aldrich

3. 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

4. 1957 • The UBC Constitution was amended to include the term “sister” to represent the 8,864 women in the brotherhood

5. 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

6. 1979 • United Tradeswomen is formed to address the concerns of the growing number of tradeswomen in NYC Including a young Elly Spicer

7. They Print Newsletters

8. They hold meetings and talk about common issues such as:

9. Sexual Harassment At right: Irene Soloway, United Tradeswomen Co-founder and Pioneer of Sister’s Activism.

10. Pregnancy Rights Lisa Narducci, 20+ yr. Local 157 member

11. & How To Organizeand Build Membership With sisters like young Star Reed, currently a 20+ year and Local 608 member

12. They Organized Demonstrations

13. UT protests hiring discrimination at Convention Center site where less than 1 in 150 workers are women

14. Get illegally fired tradeswomenRE-HIRED after contractors tell them “There is No Work Here For WOMEN” Irene Soloway “Fair Treatment NOW!”

16. Fight alongside workers from around the nation for total Union Democracy

17. Leaders respond saying women “experience more abuses as secretaries than they do on construction sites” Hmmmm…. United Tradeswomen write to Leadership, asking for backing of a women’s committee

18. But Despite Opposition…

19. Women Worked

21. 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

22. Rebecca Lurie, 20+ year member of Local 608 and former Steering Committee member

23. 1983 • 500 tradeswomen gather in California for National Tradeswomen Conference. 40 are from the UBC

24. 1990’s • Slow growth of Women Membership… • NEW grows.. • UT dismantles • Ad hoc committees continue to organize

25. In 2000, UBC Women form Sisters in the Brotherhood, their own official committee

26. 2002 First ever International UBC Women’s Conference in Las Vegas Mike Forde sends 6 sisters from New York This Committee was officially recognized

27. They prove a woman’s place is in her UNION… 23 NYCDCC women attend 2nd UBC conference in 2005

28. They met with Doug MCCarron (r. to l) Mary Ann Addorisio, Linnea Nelson, Doug McCarron, Elly Spicer, Nefertari Barnes

29. Rebecca Lurie, Dorthy Comneck, Doug McCarron, Catherine Swain, Gracie Morgan

30. They eat shrimp…

31. Most importantly, they ORGANIZED!

32. 2006Elly Spicer becomes the 1st Woman Delegate in NY

33. 2008: Liz Sgroi first woman delegate elected for local 157

34. Hey, it’s a start…

35. Progress? In 1980 there were 30 women in the NYDCC: today there are over 450 active sisters

36. Into The 80’s Sisters’ presence felt Lynda Lyday & Chryse Gibson of Local 608 Win apprenticeship contest in 1980’s

37. Joining the ranks of sisters making history is Dana Havas, Local 157 Winner of Interior Systems Golden Hammer in 2007

38. 2008: FIVE women compete in the apprentice contest!!!!! Diane Marinconz Stephanie Lawal Jessica Smith Emily Huffman Caro Marrero

39. 2006 Co-workers throw Djar Horn a Baby Shower on the jobsite

40. 2006 Steering Committee Member Kathleen Klohe’s son Zach enters the apprenticeship school. Adding to the history of mother-son duos

41. Be Proud June 2008: Sisters marched for the first time in NYC’s Pride parade

42. And we work HARD… Star Reed

44. We form bonds… Erin Fass, Andrea Jaco, Linnea Nelson at Tradeswomen’s Mother’s Day rally in 2002

46. And we’re here to stay

47. Elaine Stanley, Sandra Quinones, Olga Aguilar (An all women apprentice crew) with their foreman John Lewis.