Local Leaders Elected to Area Building Trades

JOURNAL: ISSUE 4 - 2012

Benny Wright

Local 1 Washington

Local 1 WA Field Representative Benny Wright was elected President of Olympic Peninsula Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) by delegates of the affiliated trades in August.  

Brother Wright, a 26-year member, is the first bricklayer to serve as President of the Olympic Peninsula BCTC. By virtue of his office, he will serve on the Executive Board of the Washington State Building & Construction Trades Council, a position not held by a bricklayer for more than a decade. Brother Wright continues to serve Local 1 as a Field Representative, Executive Chairman, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee, and as a trustee on several local trust funds.

One of Wright's primary responsibilities as BCTC head will be facilitating the first-ever Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on a U.S. military installation. The project, Bangor Nuclear Submarine Base/Weapon Handling Wharf construction, is now underway, is hoped to lead to other military construction PLAs throughout the country.

Joseph Andriano

Local 7 New York/New Jersey

In early August, Local 7 New York/New Jersey Field Representative Joseph Andriano was elected President of the Staten Island, New York Building and Construction Trades Council where he had previously served as Vice President for a year and half.

 Brother Andriano continues to serve Local 7 while carrying out his responsibilities on behalf of the Council, including serving as a building trades' liaison in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which caused widespread damage on Staten Island. Local 7 President Tom Lane has also been a post-Sandy contact in his capacity as an officer and Executive Board member of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.