Masonry Magazine January 2005 Page. 8
President's Message
We Need Your Help!
G. Alan Griffin
President, Mason Contractors Association of America
MCAA New Members
The Mason Contractors Association of America is proud to welcome the following new members to the Association. MCAA would like to take this opportunity to thank them for joining their fellow mason contractors nationwide in helping to build a stronger masonry industry. MCAA's members look forward to a long affiliation with their firms.
Dear friends,
For many of you receiving this issue of the Association's magazine, there is an additional tipped-on cover. This is to alert you that you are not a member of the national Mason Contractors Association of America. Inside this issue you will find a feature article on what the MCAA is doing to advance the masonry industry and protect your business (see page 14). You will also find a membership application to join the MCAA.
I ask you to join today! Our livelihoods and the future of our industry are dependent on the strength and unity of our industry's contractors. We need to come together under the banner of the national Association and provide the strength and focus to fight a unified battle to regain markets lost to tilt-up, precast and other wall systems. No other segment of the masonry industry has the ability to impact markets faster and more effectively than mason contractors.
You may think you alone have little effect on the future. Wrong! You, and thousands of other mason contractors acting together, can change our industry. What can you do?
First of all, join! You will read in this issue that the MCAA has done a tremendous job with what little resources we have. If you do nothing else but send us an application and dues payment, you are doing a lot.
Secondly, when you join, bring a fellow mason contractor with you. A collective unified voice is even more effective.
Third, after joining, get involved by working in your local chapter, attending the national convention scheduled for April in Chicago, or serving on a MCAA committee.
Lastly, you can join. Oh, did I mention that already? If you have not put down this magazine and begun filling out the application, I need to say it again: join us today! Why wait?
As a contractor, I know that things can be tight. You probably have thousands tied up in receivables and struggle to make payroll. But the fight to protect our industry is too important to ignore. We need you!
Are you a non-union contractor? Well, so am I. Are you a union contractor? Well, so is our Vice President Frank Campitelli. Union or non-union, we are all one contractor with one fight: to beat tilt-up, precast and the other competitive systems that aim at taking all of our work.
It is time to join. Welcome to the MCAA!
Sincerely,
G. Alan Griffin
Contractor Members
Advanced Building
Products
PO Box 98
Springvale, Maine
Classification Chapter Associate
Arrowhead Services, Inc.
12900 Metcall Suke 150
Overland Park, Kansas
Volume Classification A
Camarata Masonry
Services
PMB 333
12180 Greenspoint Drive
Houston, Texas
Volume Classification A
Casler Masonry
2080 Crane Brook Drive
Aubem, New York
Volume Classification C
City Masonry
6800 Mayard
Houston, Texas
Volume Classification: D
Coltrain Masonry Corp.
2550 Pincy Grove Church Road
Williamston, North Carolina
Volume Classification A
Koontz Masonry, Inc.
3066 Happy Hill Road
Lexington, North Carolina
Volume Classification:
L&L Supply Corp.
1404 Front Ave
Lutherville, Maryland
Classification: Chapter Associate
Moxley Masonry Inc.
5109 & Union Drive
Wake Forest, North Caroli
Volume Classification: B
On Center Software, Inc.
1400 bodoch Forest De
The Woodlands Texas
Classification: National Associa
Reed Masonry
1050 North Skol Road
Scranton, Penna
Volume Classification A
Rock Corporation
780 North Ridge Road
Richmond, Kentucky
Volume Classification A
Ruperto Contracting
376 Voodfield Road
West Hempstead, New York
Volume Classification: A
Seyller's Inc.
РОВ 158
Gencois
Volume ClassificationA
Stone Masons, Inc.
3235 North 15th Street East
Wichita Kan
Volume Classification B
If your company is interested in becoming a member of the Mason Contractors Association of America a Contractor, Supplier or Instructor, please contact MCAA's Director of Membership, Melissa Polivka, 800-536-2225, or complete an application www.masoncontractors.org.
Masonry
January 2005
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