Volume 18, Number 1 | January 2012
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas/happy holidays and rang in the New Year safely, with a New Year’s
resolution of new hopes and ambitions of a better economy and a lot more construction work to come our way. I hope
you had a chance to relax a little and spend some time with family and friends.
We are starting the legislative sessions in all of our jurisdictions in January. Get ready to contact your legislators,
volunteer and show support in DC, Maryland and Virginia to fight for fair legislation that we are supporting
which will protect you.
We also will be reaching out to your locals in order to get you involved and contact your legislators
to oppose any bad legislation that will come our way.
On a similar note in asking everyone to help, we as Building Trades members, do a lot of charity and volunteer
work that most people never hear of. Once again in 2010, we the, “Washington, DC, Building Trades Council,”
along with two of our local unions, IBEW Local 26 and Iron Workers Local 5, held “Project Type Zero/D.A.D.’s Day”
events, with help from some of our other Building Trades locals and vendors donating, raised $54,900: Read more... |
