Champaign, Ill.-Area Plumbers Union Celebrates Centennial.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Champaign, Ill.-Area Plumbers Union Celebrates Centennial.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1999 by Cook, Anne
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 1 — CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Area plumbers track their union’s 100-year history by economic cycles.
When business is booming, so is construction, plumbers’ bread-and-butter business, said Larry Swope, business manager of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 149 at Savoy.
“The local was founded by a group of plumbers working for contractors at the University of Illinois and on housing,” said Swope, who is preparing for the centennial celebration of the union local on June 12 at Urbana’s Holiday Inn.
“As the towns started growing, the unions started,” he said. “Peoria’s local is 110 years old
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