Masonry Magazine April 2006 Page. 29
Advancing Our Markets
FOR DECADES, our suppliers have carried the burden of promoting the use of our products and, since our funding as an Association was limited, we were content to let them lead. However, as we struggle to keep our markets, we can no longer be content with the way things were done in the past.
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ington can cripple or help enable our ability to survive and thrive as an industry. As an association, our image and influence in our nation's capital have grown over the past couple of years, and we are looking to grow that even further.
Over the past year, we have achieved many successes, most notably with our relationship with OSHA. Through our Alliance, we have established a Best Practices Workshop created for OSHA field personnel. The goal of this new workshop is to make every OSHA compliance officer familiar with our industry's training and work practices. Our pilot workshop, held in St Louis, was a great success, and we look to conduct these training workshops in every OSHA region throughout the nation over the next few years. Imagine what it will be like to have an OSHA compliance officer come to your job site and understand why you are doing certain activities, rather than citing you for them.
Having a positive relationship with key members of Congress is the second of a three-prong approach to our ability to protect our members' abilities to run their companies with a reasonable amount of independence and assurance in the future. This past year, we conducted our Legislative Conference, which proved to be a very exciting and useful conference. Like with anything else, building alliances and coalitions in Washington is a very effective way to get things done. During our meetings with allied associations, we invited others to join our effort to educate Congress and the administration on those key issues that can impact our industry. I urge all MCAA members to attend this year's Masonry Industry Legislative Conference.
The third prong is to develop our ability to assist candidates who support our issues. Therefore, we have established a very aggressive goal of raising more than $100,000 for our political action efforts. MACPAC, our political action committee, will enable our Association to help elect a pro-masonry, pro-business Congress. I encourage our masonry contractors to support our efforts to protect the industry's future by contributing to MACPAC.
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