Press Release

IU President James Boland Sends Letter to Oppose the Nomination of Judge Kavanaugh

[Washington, D.C.] September 21, 2018 – In response to the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Associate Justice of Supreme Court of the United States, President of International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers James Boland wrote a letter to all U.S. Senators to express the Union’s strong opposition.


The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest continuous union in North America and represents roughly 75,000 skilled masonry-trowel trades craftworkers in the United States and Canada, including bricklayers, tile setters, cement masons, plasterers, stone masons, marble masons, restoration workers, PCC and finishers, and terrazzo and mosaic workers.