Let’s Rise TO Build Carpenter Power TOGETHER
Carpenters RISE is a member-led, power-building campaign to empower our members to use their voice to protect union jobs and carpenter values.
Trainings
To educate and engage our sisters and brothers on issues that directly impact our jobs
Community
By joining a community board or finding other ways to give back to those in need
Elections
We bring members into the political process to hold elected officials accountable.
Successes
Since launching in 2020, we:
2024
Passed the FARE Act, fixing the broken system in which tenants were forced to pay for brokers they did not hire and making the city more affordable for our members and their families.
2024
Scored electoral victories across the board: in 2024, 98% of our endorsed candidates won their elections for the State Assembly, State Senate, and Congress.
2024
Secured approval for a game-changing new development at 970 Franklin Avenue after a three-year fight. The ten-story, 285,000-square-foot residential complex will be union-built, union-financed, and union-operated.
2024
Passed S8608/A9265, establishing an online payroll reporting system for prevailing wage construction projects statewide. This centralized database will help us identify unscrupulous contractors who attempt to steal our members’ wages.
2024
Won a 3-year battle to replace the fraud-ridden 421-a with 485-x. For the first time, residential projects over 150 units in high-density areas have strong labor standards and enforceable protections against wage theft.
2024
Killed PACT/RAD at the ballot box in NYCHA elections for the Bronx River Houses, Unity Towers, and Coney Island Houses, keeping capital repairs in the hands of union labor and out of the hands of private nonunion developers.
2023
Passed the LLC Transparency Act, requiring LLCs to disclose their owners and allowing us to target unscrupulous contractors who could once hide behind shell companies.
2023
Passed A6651/S6097, addressing a loophole in the tax code that forced our Civil Service Carpenters to pay into a benefit that they could never claim. We closed the loophole and returned tax dollars to the pockets of our members.
2023
Passed the Wage Theft Accountability Act, making wage theft a felony and giving District Attorneys new power to crack down on the construction industry's worst offenders.
2022
Served as the deciding factor in the City Council approval of a 4-building rezoning on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx, after Council Member Marjorie Velázquez pushed the developer to hire Union Carpenters.
2022
Ended the 421-a tax incentive program, which failed to create good-paying jobs or affordable homes while giving away billions of taxpayer dollars to nonunion developers.
2021
Secured a historic City Council approval of a $450 million, 16-story medical facility that will be built 100% union.
2021
Passed the General Contractor Liability Law, which holds general contractors accountable for wage theft committed by their subcontractors.
Rise With Us
Carpenters RISE is a union-wide effort to educate, organize, and empower members in the political process. Under EST Joseph Geiger’s leadership, members now interview and recommend the candidates we endorse, learn how to make their voices heard, and build the power we need to put union carpenters to work.
Make Your Voice Heard!
Because when we stand in solidarity, we have ability to secure our union values
Union Jobs
Family-Sustaining wages
Quality Benefits
Stable Pension
Healthcare
