Statement and Purpose

A) To promote and encourage greater cooperation between employers and employees, by aiding and encouraging more friendly relationships between the members of this organization, our employees and their organizations, undertaking to bring into this industry the humane feeling between employers and employees that should properly exist.

B) To promote the general welfare of its members, by the collection and distribution of reliable and useful information to its members, thus affording and providing means for the intelligent consideration and action in matters pertaining to our industry, and to provide the best and most satisfactory methods for the handling, of the execution of building contracts, to the end that our industry is surrounded with proper safeguards for the protection of life, limb and property.

C) To promote, encourage and advocate needed and helpful legislation for our industry, for the general good of all.

D) To promote and encourage efficiency in the art of masonry construction, and to generally encourage and aid in the education of apprentices in our industry, and to generally encourage the movement to build with brick and other masonry products.

E) To promote and encourage the principles of justice and equity in all dealings between the employers and the employees. co-employer and co-employees, architects, engineers, material dealers and the general public.

F) To counsel, advise, encourage and secure honorable dealings in the performance and execution of contracts with each other, with our employees, with members of other trades, and with those engaged in the erection and construction of buildings.

BE IT KNOWN that we, the undersigned subscribers hereto, citizens and residents of the United States of America, engaged in the mason construction industry and being desirous of associating ourselves together, in order to promote and encourage greater cooperation between employers and employees, to promote the general welfare of all, to protect and advance our industry, to promote and encourage a better understanding, friendship and closer relationship among ourselves and our employees, to encourage and aid in the education of apprentices in our industry, to the end that conditions in our industry become stabilized and made more uniform in practice, thereby creating greater effectiveness in the industry, do now adopt, declare and establish this constitution for our said organization and as declaratory of its purpose.

1. To act as the agent for its members in the collective bargaining process with labor unions in the Metropolitan Detroit area.
2. To enter into and enforce collective bargaining agreements.
3. To arbitrate grievances arising out of collective bargaining agreements.
4. To take such legislative, administrative, and judicial actions deemed necessary by the Board of Directors to promote the interests of the masonry industry.
5. To issue capital stock as provided for in Article IV in exchange for any lawful consideration.
6. To acquire or dispose of in any lawful manner whatsoever all legal and/or equitable interest of any real or personal property of any nature.
7. To do any and all things necessary, suitable, convenient, or proper for, or in connection with, or incidental to, the accomplishment of any of the purposes herein enumerated, or designed directly or indirectly to promote the interests of the corporation, or to enhance the value of any of its properties, and in general to do any and all things and exercise any and all powers which it may now or hereafter be lawful for the corporation to do or to exercise under the laws of the State of Michigan that may now or hereafter be applicable to the corporation.