The SMART-SMACNA Partners in Progress Task Force met in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 25-26. Attendees, which included Local 25 (Northern New Jersey) Business Manager Joe Demark, Local 219 (Rockford, Illinois) Business Manager Joe Cook, Assistant to the General President Darrell Roberts and others, focused on labor-management strategies to secure and grow the future of the unionized sheet metal industry. Topics included maintaining sustainable growth, pro-union regulatory policies, recruitment and retention, and more.
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