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2023 SpecMix Bricklayer500 Regional Competition

The 2023 Bricklayer500 Regional Competition was held at Midwest Brick & Block on Saturday, September 16.  As has been customary, every team competing was a Union Member employed by one of our Bricklayers Local 1 of Missouri Signatory Contractors.




We are excited to announce the First Place winning team *and* the Top Craftsman award at the 2023 Bricklayer500 Regional Contest are Local 1 MO Journeyman Bricklayer Rudy Menke, and his Mason Tender Steve Braswell, employed by Local 1 Signatory Contractor John Smith Masonry. They will be advancing on to the National Championships in Las Vegas in January 2024.




BAC Cares Health Clinic News!

We are pleased to announce our new permanent BAC Cares Health Clinic doctor! Dr.

Updates to Address Change & Member Information Policies

Please note the following process change for ALL address changes going forward (including ALL active and retired members, as well as all former members who collect a pension benefit):

All address changes must be submitted via provided form
available at the Union Hall or Pension & Welfare Fund Office
 

February 2018 Bricklayers' Local 1 Service Awards & Attendance Prizes

Shown below are Local 1 Journeyman Bricklayers Dale Jennewein and Kevin Wright, winners of the February 2018 50-50, and Journeyman Bricklayer Brian Burton, winner of the February 2018 Attendance Prize.

There were no Local 1 Service Awards for February 2018.

Tri-County Labor Club Mouse Races


The Tri-County Labor Legislative Club is hosting its 4th Annual St. Patrick's Day Mouse Races on Friday, March 23, 2018 at the Local 2665 Fire Fighters Hall located at 117 McMenamy Road in St. Peters, Missouri 63376.

Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and the races start at 7:00 p.m.

The cost is a $15.00 donation per person or $25.00 per couple. There will be music, beer, soda, coffee, hors d'oeuvres and cash bar. 

As always, we are appreciative of any help you can give in making this fundraiser a success and
in helping to support Labor-friendly candidates.

The Presence of Unions is a Race to the Top

January 2018 Bricklayers' Local 1 Service Awards & Attendance Prizes

Shown below are Journeyman Local 1 Bricklayers Steve Schulte and Mike O'Neill, winners of the  January 2018 50-50, and Apprentice Bricklayer Cyril Jennewein, winner of the January 2018 Attendance Prize.

50/50 Winners from Bricklayers' Local 1 Christmas Meeting, Fall Service Awards

For the December 2017 Union Meeting and Member Christmas Party, the Officers raffled off a big screen, flat panel Samsung Smart TV.  The winners of the prizes are pictured below. 

Shown below are Journeyman Local 1 Bricklayers Rich Kerperien, Ron Williams and Brian Burton. 

Job Action Against Carvalho Masonry

Bricklayers' Local 1 Members took job action against non-Signatory Contractor Carvalho Masonry, who was selected by General Contractor Pernikoff Construction, to work at a restoration job off Hampton Avenue. 

Walking picket for this job action is Ernar Hodzic, the brother of Tilesetters' Local 18 Member Senad Hodzic. 

Job Action Against Chick-Fil-A

Recently, the Officers and Members of Bricklayers' Local 1 took Job Action against a new Chick-Fil-A, being built on Hampton in South City by an out-of-state, non-Union Contractor from Arkansas. 

Shown below are Local 1 Member Wasim Aziz and Ernar Hodzic, brother of Local 18 Member Senad Hodzic, at the Job Action on Chick-Fil-A.

As a result of this Job Action, Chick-Fil-A agreed to build future stores using Union Labor.