In 1882 Carpenters Local Union 22 became the first West Coast labor organization to receive a charter from the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a new international union founded in Chicago the preceding year. The international, which seven years later had its name adjusted to the now familiar United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJ) would go on to achieve great prominence as one of the largest and most important labor unions in the United States.