Carpenters Union Holds Las Vegas Forum on Labor Issues
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 10/6/2003
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters attracted about 100 union officials, general contractors and tradeshow managers to its first International Tradeshow Leadership Conference, held this September in Las Vegas. The meeting provided one of the first-ever forums to discuss tradeshow labor issues. Though the event included numerous sessions and roundtable discussions on everything from security concerns to how labor and management can more closely work together, the strongest thrust was toward improving skilled tradeshow labor.
According to David Lawson, senior technical coordinator for the carpenters union, training sessions for union members have been implemented in New Orleans; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore. "New Orleans is the most profitable center, as far as I&D is concerned," Lawson said. "And D.C. raved about their labor, after (the session)."
Lawson said his group will hold its ITLC annually for the next couple of years, then switch to a biennial schedule as more issues with tradeshow management become resolved.
