Mission

The mission of the Boston Carmen’s Union, Local 589 is to:

• secure and defend our member’s rights,
• safeguard our interests as workingmen and women,
• create an authority whose seal shall constitute a certificate of character, intelligence and skill,
• build up an organization whereby the working members of our craft can participate in the discussions of those particular problems upon the solution of which depends our welfare and prosperity,
• encourage the principal and practice of conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of our difficulties between labor and capital,
• establish order through harmony,
• promote the general cause of humanity and brotherly love and
• secure the blessings of friendship, equality and truth.