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Attending the first meetings of the restructured International Masonry Institute in Washington, D.C. were (seated, from left): Dr. John Dunlop, Harvard professor and public memberineutral arbitrator for the IMI Board of Trustees; IMI Trustees John T. Joyce, president, BAC, and Louis J. Helbert, Jr., president, MCAA, and Harvard professor Dr. D. Quinn Mills, consultant to the IMI Board. (Standing, from left) Bruce N. Voss, executive director, Apprenticeship & Training Program of IMI, and IMI Trustees Louis Weir, BAC; George A. Miller, MCAA; Edward M. Bellucci, Donald Williams and L. Gerald Carlisle of BAC, and Don Leonard and W. C. Dentinger Jr. of MCAA. At the far right is Ray Lackey, executive director, Market Development Program of IMI.
The New IMI and Program Boards
Hold First Meetings, Set Priorities
The new International Masonry Institute, a joint endeavor by the Mason Contractors Association of America and the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen to create a labor/management institute with across-the-board problem-solving capabilities, held its first meetings in Washington, D.C. in mid-August to develop procedures and priorities.
Participating in the discussions were Harvard Professors John Dunlop and D. Quinn Mills. Dunlop is a public member and neutral arbitrator for the IMI board of trustees, and Mills serves as consultant to the board.
The new IMI is a trust fund with trustees selected by MCAA and BAC, and was created to manage two existing joint masonry industry programs in the fields of apprenticeship & training and market development, and two new joint masonry industry programs in the fields of research & development and labor/management relations, as well as to take up all other issues and developments of mutual importance to the two founding organizations and their members. Labor and management have equal voting strength on the Board.
Three of IMI's programs apprenticeship and training. market development, and research and development-are funded through voluntary collectively-bargained contributions. The fourth program-labor/management relations is funded directly by MCAA and BAC.
The heads of the two parent organizations-Louis J. Helbert, Jr. of MCAA and John T. Joyce of BAC also participated in the meetings and issued a joint statement that the "new IMI is a testament to the conviction held by our organizations that labor and management, while maintaining their traditional roles, must expand and strengthen their relationships."
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