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014 1914-2 NIVERSARY 100-YEAR AN Cherish a Well-Deserved Landmark Anniversary 44 • HUSETTS AL 10 MASSAC It’s somewhat strange thinking about Local LOC 1044 turning 100 years old; 1914 seems like RS N ThankThank You!You! E O a long time ago, especially when you consider ABeingZI a GlazierBO SallT these years, I have had a lot to be thankful for. Now, for instance, Local 1044’s Centennial GLAnniversary history has been made possible because of the sponsors, the local’s past and the 1044 family. what was happening in the world then. PAT The Braves completed the greatest IU First of all, the sponsors must be thanked for their generous assistance, which helped us get our story told. comeback in baseball history and won the It has been said that he who controls the past controls the future. In that regard, World Series; Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing was our history will shape the way we view the present and formulate us to best face chasing Pancho Villa around Mexico; Babe today’s issues — the membership of the past 100 years has left a proud history Ruth began his career as a rookie pitcher while establishing dignified work and benefits with a soul any trade union would for the Red Sox; the Ford Motor Company envy. introduced the first assembly line; doctors in “He who knows where he has been will also know where he wants to go.” Local Belgium conducted the first successful blood 1044 has spent 100 years fighting for better pay, safer working conditions, health transfusion; and the United States was still care, retirement benefits and worker education. It has elevated the living and three years away from entering World War I. working standards of all Glaziers and Glassworkers, union and non-union, within I started working for Major just before its jurisdiction. my 23rd birthday in March 1982, and if you It has revealed to its members that there is much dignity in our work, which told me at that time that Local 1044 was 67 deserves respect — and anyone who performs it also warrants that respect. The years old, I would have thought that was like an eternity. Now I am in my 33rd year in the local, and it seems membership has learned through the past that no other institution can provide like the time has gone by in the blink of an eye. It didn’t take me long to fall in love with the trade and my working men and women with the built-in dignity and economic advantage that union, though. I looked up to and admired the leadership of the local and the glaziers and glassworkers I the Labor Movement has. worked with in the field. I respected their professionalism and I wanted to get involved in my union. Because of that, I ran for financial secretary shortly after I graduated as an apprentice, and I have served as an officer in We have also been able to form other alliances with like-minded groups. We many capacities for the local and for the district council ever since. are part of a larger group of unions, district councils, the International and the AFL-CIO. In my mind, Local 1044 has some of the best mechanics and fabricators in the country. Whether we are installing storefronts, , curtainwalls or some other system, our guys are some of the best-trained, Lastly, thank you to the Local 1044 family. Its members have stood together most-qualified and hardest-working people in the industry. They work hard and earn every penny they get. We for 100 years as a unit, a true tribute to the tenacity of the membership, which would not be here celebrating 100 years as a local if that were not the case. We have been successful because has always faced one constant, change, and faced it head-on. over the years we have had great leadership, great members and great employers. The proof is there for all to In conclusion, I am so fortunate to be the local’s President on its 100th-year see, just look around Boston. anniversary; what a privilege! It is a source of pride I will always take with me. (Left to right) Steve Bernard, Sean Love, I’m sure that in 2114, when the local is preparing for its 200-year celebration, they will talk about the glaziers Jack Walsh, John McDevitt and Tom Falter at a Boston Properties building and glassworkers who came before them and how they were always there for their union, their craft and their Tom Falter, President project at in the Brothers and Sisters, as well as the wonderful legacy they left behind ‒ and they will be talking about you. I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 Prudential Center Complex. Be proud of what you do and the way you do it, because people will be talking about it a century from now. Glaziers & Glassworkers Local 1044 is here for you and because of you. Joe Itri, Business Representative I.U.P.A.T. Glaziers and Glassworkers Local 1044 is sincerely grateful I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 to the sponsors and advertisers who helped make this history program book and our 100th Anniversary Celebration a great success! This book was proudly produced by Platinum Sponsors Glass Employers Association of New England I.U.P.A.T. District Council 35 I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 and Union Histories wishes to thank the following Head Historian: Calvin Jefferson Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Bronze Sponsors for their contributions to this history program book: Art Direction: Andy Taucher I.U.P.A.T. General President’s Office I.U.P.A.T. International Office, ABS Investment Management Integrated Financial Partners I.U.P.A.T. General Secretary-Treasurer’s Office Layout & Design: Steven Demanett General President Kenneth E. Rigmaiden Czech Asset Management Kara & Karas Glass Co. I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 Business Representative Joe Itri I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 President Tom Falter Sierra Investment Partners McDonnell Investment Management I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 Financial Secretary Paul Broderick Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (Ullico) I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 Retirees Club The Bostonian Society The Century-Long History of Boston’s Glaziers’ and Glassworkers’ Union I.U.P.A.T. LOCAL NO. 1044 AT 100 YEARS

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For a $1 fee, 16 men were initiated into Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of wo days later, on October 30, 1914, the local officially received its charter from the America Glaziers Local No. 1044 of Boston on October 28, 1914: Tnational union – which was founded by John T. Elliot in 1887 as the precursor to the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades (I.B.P.A.T.) and, eventually, the O. H. Brigham Joseph O’Connell International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (I.U.P.A.T.). John Brisnahan J. D. Paletz By November 4, Local 1044 had initiated 71 members, and by the end of the year, 200 union Edward Christopher S. Palmasino cards had been issued to glaziers in the city, the last 15 being presented on New Year’s Eve. Julius Chadis Fred A. Pfannie Monthly dues were initially 75 cents per member. Frank Christopher Charles Rogers Shortly after it was organized, the local jumped right into the fray, the very next year staging “the first strike of glaziers to take place in this city in many years,” according to the August Andrew J. Carten W. Sullivan 3, 1915, Boston Daily Globe. The executive board of the union’s District Council 41 ordered the Charles Niles W. L. Wilkinson strike, which affected 225 members of Local 1044 employed in five plate and 14 sash houses, Jason O’Brien W. W. Wells to begin August 2 “after negotiations for a higher wage and shorter working hours failed.” The union was demanding a wage increase of 10 cents an First Local hour to 35 cents for bedders and tinners and 45 cents for sash template workers, and it was asking for a shorter nine- 1044 Officers hour workday. The walkout began to have its intended effect red Pfannie was the almost immediately, with about 50 members of the striking Ffirst official officer of glaziers local returning to work on August 3 after seven of the I.U.P.A.T. Glaziers Local 1044, listed in 1914 as Recording employers signed a settlement agreement, the Globe reported Secretary of Brotherhood of on August 4. Painters and Decorators of Although two more firms signed the agreement presented America Glaziers Local 1044. by the glaziers by August 20, the strike continued. Earlier that Early the next year, Daniel M. Mahoney was listed as week, the first strike benefits had been paid to the striking Financial Secretary and John M. glaziers through D.C. 41, which announced that council Wright was listed as Recording members “would continue assessments to carry on the fight,” Secretary of the local. according to the Globe. Additionally, 50 of the men on strike Later that year, Joseph Farren John . was Recording Secretary, had been put to work on odd jobs around the city J. Dougherty was Financial As the strike dragged into September, the district council Secretary and J. A. Boudrot voted on the 9th of the month to assess each of its 2,800 and John F. Welch were the local’s Business Agents. members $1 to support the members of the glaziers union, By 1917, Daniel M. many of whom had gone to work in other shops by that time. Mahoney was again listed as But the local remained on strike into 1916, as the the local’s Financial Secretary, a position he would maintain Pittsburgh, Stand and Boston Plate Glass companies had until at least 1919. refused to grant its demands. Undaunted, the local that year John Geary was fired a salvo in the union’s the earliest recorded magazine, The Painter and President when he was Decorator Journal: “These voted into that position on July 1, 1918. companies are unfair and Other early Local members of local unions 1044 officers listed in throughout New England archives include Farren are requested to refuse to as the local’s Business permit men in their employ Agent in 1923. to work upon fair jobs.” Meanwhile, more than 500 mechanics employed by Stone & Webster on new Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) buildings in Cambridge had walked out on strike November 9, 1915, after Local 1044 dues ledger, 1914 U.S. Army Pvt. Arthur J. Solari contractors refused to discharge nonunion work hours and was a further injustice because the houses First Local 1044 working in the buildings, according to the next day’s Globe. were “signed up with this local,” Mahoney also issued a plea Member was Displaying their loyalty to the overall cause of solidarity, that resounded throughout the labor movement: Meeting Locations First to Make included among the Allied Building Trades men on strike “We ask that the local unions will give us all the assistance .U.P.A.T. (then the were union glaziers. they can to stop this way of keeping the higher wage and shorter IBrotherhood of Painters ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’ workday from union men.” and Decorators of America) In yet another early exhibition of Local 1044’s commitment Glaziers Local 1044 initially hen Brotherhood to organized labor, the local’s membership was among 15,000 Keeping Up The Good Fight met in the Upholsterers’ Hall, Wof Painters and who marched in a Labor Day demonstration through the 53 Hanover Street in Boston, Decorators of America Glaziers During the following decade – and well beyond – on Sunday afternoons. Local 1044 unfurled a service streets of Boston on September 4, 1916. The local’s contingent flag displaying a single Gold was led by Financial Secretary Joseph Farren. Local 1044 was often forced to continue protecting and Pilgrim Hall at 694 Washington Street in Boston, Local Star along with 17 Blue Stars Not long after, Local 1044 started a advancing its membership and its industry. 1044’s second meeting location beginning in 1915. during its meeting (Image courtesy of the Bostonian Society) on February 18, new one-year agreement on January 1, Early in the 1920s, for instance, the local again joined 1918, it was paying 1918, with the sash firms of Boston to forces with other unions after the Building Trades special tribute Employers’ Association announced a 10-percent wage to Local 1044 cover its inside men in those shops. The member Arthur contract provided for a reduction from 9 reduction effective January 20, 1921. While the two sides J. Solari, the to 8 work hours per day, a 44-hour work had been negotiating a new wage schedule and working first member of agreement since the previous October, the United Building organized labor week and an increase in wages from 40 in America to lose cents per hour to 45-1/2 cents. Trades Council voted January 15 to suspend all work on his life in World Nationally by 1918, the Brotherhood of controlled by members of the Employers’ War I. (The blue Association in the wake of its proclamation. stars represented Painters and Decorators of America had Members voted during the members of the local successfully established the eight-hour The next year, with a building “boom” taking place in the local’s May 23, 1915, meeting who were serving in workday and a five-day workweek. City of Boston (as reported by the August 25, 1922, Daily to change meeting days and the Armed Forces at times to Mondays at 8 p.m. Globe), the glaziers were again on strike in mid-August the time.) Local 1044 did not – and would not Also during 1915, the local Solari was a – let up throughout the remainder of against outside shops and large plate-glass establishments “to began meeting in Pilgrim private in the the decade, joining a two-month-long, enforce a wage of 90 cents an hour and the closed shop.” Hall, 694 Washington Street, U.S. Army’s 101st The firms targeted in that strike were the Pittsburgh Plate where they would meet at least Infantry Regiment, Building Trades-wide strike in 1919 through 1918. 26th Division, against industry employers that ended Glass Co., the Standard Plate Glass Co. and the Boston Sash under Gen. John J. Boston Daily Globe, February 8, 1918 on June 27 that year. Upwards of 30,000 Club – none of which were members of the Building Trades Pershing, leader of Employers’ Association or had signed a recent “closed shop” the American Expeditionary “mechanics of all crafts,” including Forces in “The Great War.” glaziers, received a standardized wage increase with the new agreement with the Building Trades Council. Solari was killed in action In 1926, Local 1044 was one on February 5, 1918; he is agreement, the June 28 Globe reported, of 90 cents until buried in the Meuse-Argonne April 1, 1920, and then $1 until December 31, 1920, while of 13 unions “engaged in a American Cemetery in shop glaziers received 67-1/2 cents per hour and then 70 sympathetic strike since August 26 Romagne, France. cents per hour, respectively. against the Scully Company and On July 5, 1919, the City of subcontractors working on five Boston named the open space Meanwhile, however, Financial Secretary Daniel M. at the junction of Thacher and Mahoney announced in a 1919 Journal that the plate-glass construction jobs in Boston and North Margin streets “Arthur Cambridge, including an office Solari Square” in his honor. houses of Boston were subletting much of their work to nonunion shops throughout New England. After explaining building and apartment houses,” that the situation resulted in Local 1044 members losing the Globe reported on November Boston Daily Globe, November 22, 1918 SERVICIN G OUR ME 19. A Suffolk Superior Court Judge eventually ordered that in our history,” the MBE RS & O the strike come to an end. I.U.P.A.T. History UR IN boasts. Local 1044 DU The local’s activity paid off, at least in some instances. By STRY January 1929, for example, Local 1044 had joined most members were FOR other I.B.P.A.T. locals in the 5-day work week. among the many 100 union members Y Truck of Local 1044 contractor Jacob Rubin and Sons (which But with the nation immersed in the Great EA later became Rubin Glass and located in Brighton, who worked on RS Depression during much of the 1930s after Massachusetts), circa 1920s. (Photo courtesy of David Gondelman, 41- government projects year member of Local 1044 and great-grandson of Jacob Rubin) the Stock Market crash of 1929, membership during the war in the International Union fell from 115,000 IUPAT G and the more than to about 60,000. The nation and unions, LAZI 1 24,000ER SI.B.P.A.T. 914- in general, would not recover until after LOC 2014 members who served in the armed forces – hundredsA Lof President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted BOSTO 104 whom made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation, accordingN 4 • 1 his “New Deal” legislation in the mid-’30s, 00-Y to the union’s historical account. M E which included several laws recognizing ASS AR ACH AN workers’ rights and supporting organized In January 1947, the local held its first annual ball to USE N TTS IVE labor. support its Sick Fund. The following year, its second dinner- RS dance collected about $300 for the fund. AR Locally beginning in the early 1930s, the Y economic situation contributed to the liquidation of some Rising Along with Its Union & City larger glass companies, such as Standard Plate Glass of Butler, Pennsylvania, which had a large branch in Boston. With construction work in and around Boston flourishing Many of the employees there went to work with Local into and throughout the 1960s, Local 1044 members worked 1044 contractor Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., as well as other for Cupples Glass on the 52-story in the companies, according to the industry memoir of Harry A. early ‘60s, a project that essentially started the rapid growth Wheeler, “Looking Through Glass.” of downtown Boston during that time. The building, which is part of the Prudential Center complex, was Former Standard workers also joined with or started completed in 1964 (and today is the second-tallest smaller glass and glazing or mirror shops, which at the time building in Boston, behind the .) were increasing in number, the memoir recounts. Prominent among these were eventual Local 1044 contractors Dorchester The local remained busy for much of the decade, Plate and Glass Co.; working on projects such as the Wellesley Office Park, a campus comprised of eight buildings A National Plate & Window Glass Co. truck at the signatory Empire Plate & Window Glass company’s location at 61 Green Street in Boston, May 1931. Co.; National Plate and Window totaling nearly 650,000 square feet on William (Photo courtesy of Hub Glass Services, Inc.) Glass Co.; Perfection Glass Co.; Street, overlooking the Charles River. and Karas & Karas (which would But 400 Local 1044 glaziers went on strike remain a Local 1044 contractor for beginning August 28, 1961, over a wage dispute, decades to come and through to the affecting about 39 glazing shops and stopping local’s 100th anniversary.) millions of dollars worth of construction work, The contributions of many of its according to the August 29 Boston Globe. Those 145,000 members during World projects included high schools in Danvers and War II “are a particular highlight Waltham; junior high schools in Arlington, The Prudential Tower Contractors Randolph and Braintree; two skyscraper apartments in Boston’s government intervention, according to the September 6, West End; a building at Harvard Medical School; and a 1966, Globe. Also signing on to the plan were Laborers Local at 50 Years laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. 22, Local 7 and Local 12, as well as I.B.P.A.T. Local 1044’s The union was seeking a 51-cent-an-hour raise over two representatives from the Associated General Contractors of employing contractors at the years, 23 cents the first year and 28 cents the second, but Massachusetts; the Building Trades Employers’ Association of time of its 50th anniversary Boston and Eastern Massachusetts; the Mechanical Contractors included the following: employers were only offering a total of 22-1/2 cents more Association of Boston; the Master Plumbers Association of Alliance Glass Corp. over that time period. At the time, the local’s glaziers were Boston; the Asbestos Contractors of Boston Association; and Allstate Glass Corp. making $3.41 per hour, with inside shop men receiving an Capitol Glass Co. hourly maximum of $2.25. the Electrical Contractors Association of Greater Boston. Central Glass Co. During the turbulent decade, the I.B.P.A.T. as a whole Meanwhile, among other landmark projects, Local 1044 City Mirror & Glass Co. became more “deeply involved” with politics; the union’s members helped build the Burlington Mall in 1967 while Dorchester Plate and Window Glass Co. history notes that its leaders during that time “worked with working for Karas & Karas. Eagle Glass Co. elected officials in creating landmark legislation” such as the Local 1044 business representatives John Empire Plate & Window Glass Co. J. Broderick (left) and Pat Bocanfuso at Federal Glass & Mirror Co. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and laws that created Medicare and the local’s 50-year anniversary, 1964. Gatchell Glass Co. Medicaid programs and the Department of Housing and Haverhill Plate Glass Co. Urban Development. The I.B.P.A.T. also took an active role John H. Settles Glass Co. in the campaign to raise the federal minimum wage. Karas & Karas Closer to home, Local 1044 celebrated its 50th anniversary Lawrence Plate & Window Glass on Saturday, May 23, 1964, with a dinner at the Bradford Lowell Glass Co. Hotel in Boston. National Plate and Window Glass Co. National Store Fronts Co. Two years later, after a full year of negotiations headed by Northeast Glass Corp. Local 1044 Business Representative John J. Broderick, the Perfection Glass Co. local and numerous industry groups signed a “revised plan Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. for the settlement of jurisdictional disputes in Boston,” intent Quincy Glass Co. on solving internal jurisdictional problems with minimal Salem Glass Co. Shaw Glass Co. The first official Local 1044 Christmas party, held in 1963. Superior Glass Co. United Mirror and Plate Glass Co. Whittemore-Durgin Glass Co.

IUPAT GLA 191 ZIER 4-20 S LOCA 14 B L 10 OSTON 44 • 100-Y MA EA SSA R Local 1044 celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 23, 1964, at the Bradford Hotel. CHU AN SET NI TS VER SAR Y The local also continued to play a major Double-Duty on Hancock Place role in the growth of downtown Boston at the time, working on the many tall buildings Rising 60 stories above Boston as the city’s tallest building, that sprouted up in the early- and mid-1970s The John Hancock Tower (officially named Hancock Place) – as throughout its history, Local 1044 would is one of the signature projects on which members of Local work on most every prominent skyscraper in 1044 have worked throughout the local’s history. However, the city. The union glaziers and glassworkers problems with the building’s architecture caused many of its One 500-pound windowpanes to detach from the building and Local 1044 officers in the early 1970s included (from left) applied their skills to the 41-story President James Broderick, Trustee James Farmer, Business Boston Place under PPG Industries, which crash to the sidewalk below after it was initially completed Manager Pat Bocanfuso and Vice President Jack Montgomery First in 1973 – and forced the owners and to re-hire (standing here with two contractors on the right.) opened in 1970, and the 37-story National Bank Building under Salem Glass, Local 1044 contractors to replace all of the tower’s 10,348 which was completed in 1971. windowpanes the next year. Members went on strike that year against Pittsburgh Plate Designed by the firm I. M. Pei & Partners, The Hancock Glass beginning Thanksgiving Day, remaining on picket Tower experienced problems with the “innovative use of lines into December. blue reflective glass in a steel tower,” forcing police to close off surrounding streets whenever winds reached 45 mph, Construction of the skyscraper was according to The Boston Globe. In October 1973, the finished in 1972 using Local announced that all of the tower’s windowpanes 1044 labor working for PPG. would be replaced by single-paned, heat-treated panels, a job The 37-floor building featured that would cost about $7.7 million to complete. the largest lite of glass in the city – ¾-inch plate glass that was Local 1044 workmen meticulously knocked out each of the installed by the local’s craftsmen. building’s 55-square-foot , which were from 1/4- inch to 5/16-inch wide, The local then worked on and replaced them the 60-story John Hancock with new glass that was Tower and the 32-story Federal Local 1044 members install lite of glass specially designed to at One Beacon Street, 1970s. Reserve Bank Building, which withstand high winds was completed in 1976, under and retain the unique Karas & Karas. reflective quality of Away from the field, Local the original glass, the 1044’s Annuity Plan was started in 1977 after being Globe reported. Some championed by Jack Montgomery, initially beginning with of the original glass was John Hancock Tower a 25-cents-an-hour contribution from members. The local later reused by artists also began providing Birth Insurance to members in 1979. to create sculptures, To top off the decade, the local worked on the John F. according to an article Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia in the January 3, 1988, Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Designed New York Times. by the architect I. M. Pei, the library and museum were dedicated in 1979. Local 1044 workers replace the windows of the John Hancock Tower, 1973. (continued after next page) Ensuring a Well-Trained Membership While ensuring its members are properly skilled has been a priority of Local 1044 since its inception, the local did not have an official apprentice class until 1972 – before which apprentices learned on the job. That first training school included three years of instruction and was held in a school building Glazing apprentices train at the in Boston. Brentwood training facility, 2011. When the local became fully affiliated with I.B.P.A.T. YEARS District Council 35 beginning January 1, 1997, the Y FOR 100 DUSTR Local 1044 apprenticeship program became part of the UR IN D.C. 35 Joint Training Program Trust, which operates Local 1044 participates in a &Solidarity O Rally in Boston, 1982. BERS the Finishing Trades Institute of New England. MEM Local 1044 instructors and trade-related instruction OUR Surviving Hard Times continued under the same guidelines as before, but G Second-year apprentices at work at IN the local’s members were then able to participate in IC The early- and mid-1980s were particularly difficult for Local the Brentwood training facility, 2012. RV all educational activities offered through the district SE 1044, as the work situation in its jurisdiction was especially council, including skill improvement and health and poor during those years and unemployment for the local safety courses. reached up to 60 percent at times. In fact, most organized- “Functioning as one entity, the joint apprenticeship labor -2organizations014 suffered during theRY 1980s because of an 1914 VERSA and training program will be able to accommodate the anti-union atmosphereR A NthatNI pervaded the United States, and membership- YinE laborA unions generally declined. needs of all allied crafts affiliated with the council,” the 100 SETTS 4 • SACHU D.C. 35 Newsletter stated in its Apprenticeship and 104Regardless,MAS Local 1044 continued to work on some of the AL Training News Update in February 1997. LOC City of Boston’s most prominent and important structures RS TON Less than a decade later, the D.C. 35 training program IE BOS and projects, such as the 46-story AZ received STAR Safety Training Award recognition in GL building under Major Glass, which was completed in 1983, AT 2006 from the I.U.P.A.T. International Office. IUP and the 46-story skyscraper under PPG, which was Today, Local 1044 shares two state-of-the-art, Local 1044 members picket Settles Glass, 1987. completed in 1987. 20,000-square-feet training centers with D.C. 35, By decade’s end, Fenway Park, the sacred one at 25 Colgate Drive in Roslindale and the other home of the Boston Red Sox, added the at 34 Commercial Drive in Brentwood. Together, the 600 Club above its home-plate bandstand, facilities provide about 23,000 square feet of lab space replacing the existing press box. Opened to the district council’s glazing, painting and drywall on May 29, 1989, the 610 stadium club finishing locals, with classes in Aerial Lift Training seats, bar and restaurant were enclosed in a Awareness (ALTA); CPR; Respiratory Protection huge of glass panes installed by Local Program (PFT); 2A/IC Hoisting Preparatory Course; Scaffold-User Course; mandatory 10-Hour OSHA 1044 members. (The addition is largely First-year apprentice participates credited with changing the air currents in Construction Outreach Course; and Fall Protection. in Lull training, 2013. (continued after next page) Constantly Fenway Park to the detriment of hitters, according to several negotiations indicating that media Red Sox reports.) it would not participate in a Good Neighbor With a new millennium approaching, the local remained industry contract talks. Local 1044 has always been active during the 1990s. Notably, its members worked for During the strike, Local committed to serving its Harmon Glass on the 35-story , 1044 deployed picket community, and consistently partakes in charity projects which was completed in 1992. lines at the Buckingham, whenever asked to assist. By 1994, Local 1044 began offering COMET (Construction Brown and Nichols School Specifically, the local Organizing Membership Education Training) classes for its in Cambridge, before the participates in Building project was turned over to Pathways, a training program members to help them better promote the union when out in that prepares participants for an the field. Through COMET, the local’s membership learned union-signatory contractor apprenticeship, and Helmets how to best spread the word about the benefits of being union Ipswich Bay Glass, and to Hardhats, which connects Karas & Karas was Local 1044 members (left to right) Ron Montgomery, Jack Montgomery and Kevin military service members to people who never belonged to a union, and they were taught Montgomery during a strike against the contractor working at Shriners Hospital, 1998. with career opportunities in how to help enforce labor and employment laws. temporarily replaced on work at the Hancock Tower by Hub Glass. In the meantime, the construction industry, On January 1, 1997, Local 1044 became fully affiliated in conjunction with District the local was obligated to provide members for work on the with I.B.P.A.T. District Council No. 35. As such, the Council 35. Logan Airport 2000 project, which had a no-strike clause local turned over its funds to the District Council, in its project labor agreement, and at Lucent Technologies including consolidation of all trust funds; in the end, in North Andover, which fell under a General President’s among other benefits the move improved pensions Agreement with the I.B.P.A.T. and annuities for members. On November 23, Local 1044 picket lines then went up That year, the local also participated with its sister D.C. at the Shriners Burn Center in Boston against Local 1044 members Kenneth Wright 35 locals in the beginning of the PIPS – Painting & and Larry Ford work at a branch of the Kiva, which had filed a petition with the National Glazing Industry Partnership for Safety – program. Boston Public Library. Labor Relations Board claiming that the local In July 1997, the local reached a landmark contract did not represent its workers. After eight days, extension when, after five months of negotiations, it Kiva Systems was replaced by Alliance Erectors U.S. armed forces in Iraq attached a Local 1044 gained a new, expanded metal fabrication collective of Rhode Island, which signed an out-of-area union sticker to one of their vehicles (lower left, on bumper). This particular vehicle was later bargaining agreement with the Ipswich Bay Glass agreement with the district council. damaged during a firefight. Company. The contract, which would run to June Later that decade, as the millennium was 30, 2000, allowed the company to expand and create coming to a close, the local did the glazing for Over the past several years, new jobs for union members while covering the the Seaport Boston Hotel and the neighboring the local also has sent dozens of design, engineering and production of curtainwall, windows “care packages” to U.S. Armed Seaport World Trade Center, located on the and entrances. At the same time, the contract improved the Forces troops fighting the Boston waterfront at Commonwealth Pier. The War on Terror and stationed Local 1044 wage and benefits packages and expanded the Seaport Boston Hotel opened in 1998. overseas – providing a much local’s representation within the fabrication workforce. need morale boost from back The local’s glaziers had also begun working home to many of the nation’s The following year, Local 1044 members at Karas & Karas Glass on the Boston Convention and Exhibition men and women in uniform. and Kiva Systems went on strike after the two glass contractors Center at that time. When completed in June refused to sign a union contract that had been accepted by 2004, the $850 million exhibition center would be the largest other signatory companies. Longtime contractor Karas & Karas in the Northeast United States, with about 516,000 square even sent D.C. 35 a termination letter at the beginning of feet of contiguous exhibition space. 100 YEARS STRY FOR R INDU S & OU Surging Into A New Millennium MBER R ME The list of non-union glazing contractors that signed G OU contracts with Local 1044 and D.C. 35 grew steadily with CIN the dawn of the new millennium. In fact, during the first RVI five months of 2001, 20 companies became union signatory SE contractors with the district council, including glazing contractor L.S.I. Glazing Erectors of Orange, Massachusetts. A year earlier on June 1, 2000, Jackson Glass, a Boston- based, woman-owned company in business since 1947, 2014 9became14- one of Local 1044’sR SnewestARY contractors when 1 ANNIVE Jackson Glass-YEA PresidentR Sandra DiMino signed with the district10 0council. KeySETT Sto the negotiations, the union was able 4 • SACHU L 104to demonstrateMAS to DiMino that “with the apprenticeship OCA program and skilled Local 1044 members available, the S L ON union can meet Jackson Glass’s future manpower needs,” the ER OST ZI B D.C. 35 Newsletter proclaimed. Gillette Stadium (formerly CMGI Field) GLA PAT But the local did not become complacent. For IU example, when five glaziers at Execulite Glass in Quincy, doing this work!” the October 2001 D.C. 35 Massachusetts, walked out on February 14, 2001, after the Newsletter exalted. company threatened to close its rather than recognize the employees’ right to join a union, that morning all five Meanwhile, carpenters also attempted to claim strikers were at work for Local 1044 contractor Ipswich Bay, glasswork for a store being built in Cambridge, and Execulite soon after proclaimed it was out of business. but Coastal Glass did the job with Local 1044 glaziers. And at Cisco Systems in Foxboro, Then on October 6 that year, the local and D.C. 35 Construction at CMGI Field (now Gillette Stadium), carpenters tried to take over curtainwall, which was done 100-percent union, in 2001. responded with picket lines and unfair labor practice charges entrances and strip windows work, but in the to the National Labor Relations Board after College Town end the local performed all installation of aluminum frames and Siding and Glass of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, illegally fired the glazing work on the project. three employees who signed union cards to join Local 1044. Local 1044 also took on WFXT-Fox TV 25 in Dedham, The local’s members were also providing the glazing and Massachusetts, in January 2002 when it used New Hampshire glass-working labor for one of the more prestigious projects Glass, a nonunion contractor, on a job. One week after setting at the time: CMGI Field, which up pickets and leafleting the Massachusetts Statehouse while would become Gillette Stadium, challenging Fox TV 25’s commitment to local workers, the home for both the New England 3,200 man-hours of work on the job were subcontracted to Patriots and the New England Local 1044 signatory contractor L.S.I. Glazing Erectors. Revolution of Major League Soccer. Completed in 2002, the Yet another significant project among several on which the Suffolk University’s 68,756-seat stadium was built local worked in the new millennium was new residence hall entirely under a project labor , which opened its doors to 345 students agreement – although during in September 2003. The year before, the construction construction, the carpenters’ workers had dressed in hard hats and tuxedos after the final union attempted to claim work beam was hoisted to the top of the hall at 10 Somerset Street installing the entrances that was on November 21, while Suffolk administrators, faculty, being done by Tower Glass, whose students, alumni and friends had joined various Boston owner, Rich Mauro, “made clear Building Trades workers in signing their names on the beam, Globe that Local 1044 glaziers will be the reported. Local 1044 contractor Total Glazing Systems then won which lost significant membership the glazing contract for a new minor league baseball park during that time. In fact, Local in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Fisher Cats. The 1044 Business Representative Joe state-of-the-art, 6,500-seat stadium opened in April 2005 as Itri described that time period as a Fisher Cats Ballpark. (The facility became Merchantsauto. “rollercoaster ride” in the Fall 2010 com Stadium in April 2006 and in 2011, it became known issue of the D.C. 35 Newsletter as Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.) – but, as he noted, by 2010, the Also during this time, Local 1044 local was recovering from the down was glazing the new Terminal A at economy. Boston’s Logan International Airport, Even at the height of that Local 1044 members work on construction of the Fogg Museum in Boston, 2012. working for union contractor AWalls. economic downturn, however, the Notably, the building was the first local was still able to negotiate a airport terminal in the United States three-year agreement that turned to be LEED (Leadership in Energy out to be the most lucrative in the country, according and Environmental Design) certified to Itri in the Winter 2011 D.C. 35 newsletter. for environmentally friendly design As the three-year construction slump came to an by the U.S. Green Building Council, end, the local was already gaining its membership featuring heat-reflecting windows among back and was working on projects that included East other attributes, according to airport- Middle School in Braintree, Massachusetts General technology.com. Hospital Museum and a new Worcester Polytechnic With its members’ skills on full Institute facility. By 2012, the local was glazing major display throughout the first half of the jobs such as the Residence Inn-Brookline Avenue millennium’s first decade, the local near Fenway Park, Kensington Place on Washington demonstrated its commitment, along Street and the Fogg Museum. with D.C. 35, to providing its contractors with the best Again displaying its dedication to protecting all workforce available when on August 6, 2005, the district workers, Local 1044 joined D.C. 35 and other area council’s new, $4-million, state-of-the-art training center in unions in July 2012 to help expose a subcontractor Brentwood, New Hampshire, opened. It also marked the who was paying unfair wages to a group of Philadelphia union’s continued expansion into northern New England. workers hired to renovate the Boston Marriott Copley The following year in June 2006, members of the glaziers’ Place hotel. Massachusetts State Attorney General local approved a new, four-year area glassworkers agreement. Martha Coakley said at the time that the workers The new contract was worth $7 in improvements in wages, were paid only $4 an hour, half the state’s minimum benefits and overtime conditions. wage, and her office was alerted of the situation by By 2008, Local 1044 was well-engaged in the revitalization the unions – which resulted in the 37 workers from of downtown Boston that had begun to take place. Projects Victory Outreach Church being awarded a total of $31,000 included the building at 1330 Boylston Street with Tower Glass, in back pay. a Northeastern University dorm project with Ipswich Bay Glass An evangelical ministry, the church specializes in and a Boston University dorm project with Karas & Karas. rehabilitating people struggling with substance abuse and By April 2008, continued growth in the union glass often arranges for its members to perform labor as part and glazing industry allowed Local 1044 to add a second of its recovery program. They were hired in November by business representative when Business Manager Ralph subcontractor Installation Plus of California, and Woburn Harriman appointed organizer Paul Canning to the new general contractor Baystate Services agreed to pay the wages position on April 7. owed to them, according to Coakley’s office. Indeed, the Boston construction industry was rebounding strongly, and But 2007 through 2009 were difficult years overall for the by late 2013, it was “showing signs of life again in Boston construction industry in the Northeast, in general, and the local, with the growing number of new construction projects, especially in the areas of rental towers and academic projects,” states, “Labor and management may not always agree at Contractors according to the November 25 USGlass Magazine. Key to the table, but we must agree when the decisions are made at 100 Years the turnaround, which benefited Local 1044 with additional at the end of the day.” glazing employment, was expansion at the many academic Moving into its next 100 years, the local will further As I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 celebrates institutions in the area, such as Harvard University and work to protect its jurisdiction from organizations that its Centennial Anniversary, its employing contractors include the following: M.I.T., and several major hospitals. threaten its industry as technology advances and new A&A Window Products, Inc. As Local 1044 approached its 100th Anniversary in products emerge. To that end, the local will keep up with Alliance Glass Co. October 2014, recent government mandates to improve advancements in technology and put into its collective Aluminum & Glass Concepts safety and which also include the use of thermal glass have bargaining agreements and training schedules language that Back Bay Sign Co. drastically changed the glazing industry. Plate glass is no protects it from organizations with misguided or delusional leadership that seeks to hurt the labor movement. Chandler Architectural Products, Inc. longer used in construction, and most glass is pre-cut in I.U.P.A.T. Local 1044 member Ryan Cheviot Corp. factories, eliminating shop work, which has allowed other “In the end, the union is more than collective Washburn, pictured here with his family, Closure Company, LLC trades to take work away from Local 1044. bargaining agreements, good wages, benefits and is a Glazier and Black Hawk pilot for the New Hampshire National Guard. Coastal Glass & Aluminum But the future looks bright for the glazing industry, as the good working conditions. The union is the people Colonial Systems last several years have seen U.S. manufacturers announce new themselves, banding together in a triumph of hope Custom Glass & Aluminum Co., Inc. facilities, partnerships, technology improvements and funding over fear, standing up together for justice. Because of Demers Plate Glass Co. acquisitions, and recent reports forecast major growth in the the organizers and organizing campaigns in the last East Coast Office Installations sector by 2020. What’s more, the Department of Energy is 100 years, and because of the sacrifices many men Enclos Corp. looking to “smart glass” products, in particular, to help the and women made in the past, we enjoy the standard General Glass & Mirror Corp. commercial construction industry achieve zero-energy goals. of living we have today, but we must continue to Glass Installation Co., Inc. Even after 100 years, glaziers are in demand; driven by organize to keep our union strong!” Glass , LLC the popularity of glass exterior facades, as well as the energy- Glazing Dynamics, LLC Paul Canning, Director of Business Development, I.U.P.A.T. District Council 35 efficiency improvements of glass and windows, U.S. glazier Paul Canning Hub Glass employment is expected to increase. According to the Bureau Installations Unlimited of Labor Statistics, glazier employment is projected to grow Ipswich Bay Glass 1914-2014 42 percent from 2010 to 2020, a much faster rate than the J.K. Glass average for all occupations. T GLAZIERS LOCAL 1044 • 100-YEAR ANNIVERS Jackson Glass, Inc. IUPA BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ARY John Canning Co. Ltd. Local 1044 will focus on organizing to supply this high K&G Entrances demand with experienced labor in the coming years and Karas & Karas Glass Co., Inc. beyond. Organizing, education, legislation and training are Kiva Systems, Inc. grass-root efforts that kept the union strong, and today as Modern Glass & Aluminum much as ever, Local 1044 must engage its membership into Permasteelisa Cladding Tech., Ltd. activities such as running for elected positions. “Organizing is PPG Industries the job of every single union member, as it is the responsibility Precision Glass & Mirror of every member to educate friends, families and neighbors Prudential & Window about what a union really is,” Paul Canning, Director of Retail Storefront Group Business Development for D.C. 35, proclaims. Salem Glass Company The local will also look to continue investing in its Samson Enterprises, Inc. apprentice and training departments and recruiting, training Seele, L.P. and deploying its members, keenly aware that investing in its Shaw Glass Company/Solar Seal apprenticeship programs is an investment in the future. Skytech Construction, Inc. Local 1044 will need to build relationships and partner Store Front Systems, Inc. within the community and community groups, spreading its Sunrise Erectors, Inc. message that unionism builds strong careers, strong families Total Glazing Systems and safe working conditions. The local will also need to work I.U.P.A.T. Glaziers and Glassworkers Executive Board, 2014 (Seated, left to right: Paul Broderick, Financial Secretary; Paul Tower Glass Company, Inc. with its employers groups and employer association, giving Canning, Director of Organizing, Past President; Tom Falter, President, Glazing Instructor, Delegate; Joe Itri, Business Representative, United Glass, Inc. give them the tools needed to help them grow their market Past President; and Bryan O’Sullivan, Organizer, Delegate, District Council President, Past President. Standing, left to right: Joe Nardelli, Valley Glass, Inc. Executive Board Member; James Hutchinson, Trustee; Jack Walsh, Sergeant at Arms, Delegate; Jimmy Burke, Vice President, Delegate; share, in turn creating jobs for union members. As Canning Steve Gerbutavich, Treasurer, Delegate; Pat Pickup, Recording Secretary; and Ray Pickup, Organizer, Executive Board Member.)

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