Building Trades See Opportunity in Gulf Coast Rebuilding
It's not exactly business as usual when the president of the ironworkers’ union comes to New Orleans. But, then again, not much is business as usual since Katrina hit on Aug. 29th.
“Everybody has been scrambling about what is going to happen with reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area,” said Joseph Hunt from his hotel room in New Orleans last week. He had just returned from a meeting held at the Metairie, Louisiana office of the Plumbers, Marine and Steamfitters Local 60, where representatives of all the area building trades had been exchanging ideas about how to create a stronger presence in the area.