Masonry Magazine October 1978 Page. 32

Words: Brian Foote, Eugene George, Don Williams, Dee Brown, W. Fraser, John Tiefenbeck, Danny DeMonte, Don Franks, Art Bill
Masonry Magazine October 1978 Page. 32

Masonry Magazine October 1978 Page. 32
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Collective Agreement Signed in Ontario

Shown here are the participants in the official signing of the Ontario Bricklayer Provincial Collective Agreement for 1978-80, which took place at the new Canada Masonry Centre in Toronto. (From the left) Don Williams. Canadian vice president. International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen (BAC): W. Neil Fraser, executive director, Ontario Masonry Contractors' Association; John Tiefenbeck, director of labour relations, Ontario Masonry Contractors' Association: Danny DeMonte, president, Ontario Provincial Conference, BAC Don Franks, vice chairman, Construction Industry Review Panel. Department of Labour. Ontario: Eugene George, president, Ontario Masonry Contractors' Association and president of MCAA: Art Bill. Ontario Provincial Conference. BAC, and Brian Foote, Ontario General Contractors Association, Labour Relations Bureau,


DEE BROWN

continued from page 11 years. He was the first chairman of IMI and a founding trustee.

Brown is president and board chairman of Dee Brown Masonry, Inc. and has long been active in masonry industry affairs. In addition to serving on the IMI Board, he is a director of the Texas State Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee for Bricklayers, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Bricklayers Pension Fund and the Health and Welfare. Plan of Texas.

Brown became an IMI trustee at the organization's August 3 Board meeting in Washington, D.C. IMI is an international masonry promotion trust jointly created by the Mason Contractors Association of America and the International Union of Bricklayers. and Allied Craftsmen (BAC). It is active in both the U.S. and Canada.


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