Executive Council Report

JOURNAL: ISSUE 4 - 2012

Members of the BAC Executive Council, representing the Union's diverse regions, crafts and constituency groups, gathered in October in Washington, D.C. for three full days of deliberations on a wide range of topics including the 2012 election, what's ahead for multiemployer health and welfare and pension plans, the U.S. construction outlook, and BAC's prolific efforts with IMI and industry partners to create jobs for BAC members and contractors. Council members also joined the IU Executive Board in honoring BAC Executive Vice President Ken Lambert, who retired from the Board in August.

The common thread throughout the meeting, said BAC President James Boland, "is how we adapt and respond creatively to secure work for our members in the most difficult economy since the 1930s. Our capacity to do so has been bolstered by various forms of Local Union and ADC market recovery programs, the targeting of specific jobs and markets such as structural masonry, seismic applications and prevailing wage work, and advancing masonry's place in the latest information and software technologies."