Local 474 is the marine construction local of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters — 800+ trained journeymen and apprentices working every port, bridge and pier along the Mid-Atlantic waterfront.
§ 01 · The mission
Local 474 exists to defend and improve the working conditions of the men and women who build America's waterfront. That mission has not changed since 1913. It won't change tomorrow. Every hour of member training, every organizing campaign, every meeting on the third Friday — all of it is in service of that one thing.
The first pile drivers & wharf builders local in Philadelphia is chartered under the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, giving marine tradesmen along the Delaware River a formal seat at the bargaining table.
Members build out the WPA-era timber wharves along the Delaware River — some of which are still standing.
Wartime shipyard buildout at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, Camden, and Wilmington. Divers salvage the tonnage that keeps merchant convoys moving through the North Atlantic.
Post-war infrastructure boom — ferry terminals, container piers, chemical outfalls, refinery jetties. The Delaware Bay becomes the busiest oil port on the East Coast, and 474 crews build it.
The Michael J. Dooley Scholarship is founded to send members' kids to college. It still writes checks every fall.
The commercial dive program is formalized at Hammonton. Members begin working underwater on infrastructure inspection, welding, and salvage across the entire jurisdiction.
Consolidated into the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters — 30,000+ members strong across seven states.
Bridge rehabilitation era — Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman, Delair, Commodore Barry. Local 474 crews go underwater on every one of them.
Offshore wind foundations, ferry terminal expansions, LNG pier work, and the next generation of the Mid-Atlantic waterfront.
§ 03 · Jurisdiction
Local 474 dispatches into every coastal and river county from Pennsylvania south to the Virginia line. If it's got salt or brackish water and a foundation in it — we work there.
Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Delaware counties.
Ocean, Burlington counties and the Delaware Bay industrial corridor.
Statewide — Wilmington ports through Cape Henlopen.
Statewide — Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, and Eastern Shore.
Anacostia River, federal waterfront work.
Northern VA and Chesapeake Bay side of Hampton Roads.
§ 04 · Officers & representatives
The council reps, admins and organizers who staff the hall and represent the members. Call any of them — they answer their phones.
Senior Council Representative
Olaf Olsen
Senior representative for Local 474. First point of contact for major project inquiries.
Phone917·525·7681
Council Rep · PA / NJ / DE / E. MD
Bill Snyder
Coverage: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Phone609·402·2149
Council Rep · DC / MD / VA
Mike Conner
Coverage: District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
Phone410·375·0048
Administration · Hall
Jessica Daley
Contracts, dispatch coordination, member services.
Phone215·569·1632
Administration · Records
Patricia McGuinness
Member records, PIN resets, dues, scholarship coordination.
Meeting cadence
Third Friday · 7:30 p.m.
Every month except August. Alternating cadence between the Philadelphia hall and the Upper Marlboro, MD hall.
Phila. Hall1803 Spring Garden St
Md. HallUpper Marlboro, MD
§ 05 · Next up
Members: come to the third-Friday meeting. Prospective apprentices: register for the next info session. Contractors: call the hall. The door is open.