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2022 Service Award Recipients

Our Business Representatives have continued meeting with and hand deliveriving the 25, 40, and 50 year awards to our hard working members who we recognize for their many years of hard work and dedi

2022 R.E. Shepherd College Scholarships Awarded

Robert E. Shepherd was the President of the Ceramic Tile Layers Local 67 and later selected to be the Vice President of the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers.

In-Person Union Meetings Resumed

We are happy to announce that we have resumed in person Union meetings. All meetings will be held at the union hall at 660 N. Industrial Drive, Elmhurst, Illinois.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
- Barack Obama

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Robert E. Shepherd Scholarship

The R.E. Scholarship Fund was established in 1977 to honor one of the founding fathers and most influential members of the Ceramic Tile Layers Union, Local 67 of Illinois. Holding the highest position in the local union and named a Vice-President of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, his vision was instrumental to the growth and success of the union movement. This scholarship continues his legacy of helping proud union families prosper.

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2021 Membership Award Pictures!

Our Business Representatives have started meeting with and hand delivering the 25, 40, and 50 year awards to our hard working members who we recognize for their many years of hard work and dedicated service. Below are some pictures from our members, to whom we extend our heartfelt congratulations.

Thank you again to all our members for your years of service and dedication to the union.

Congratulations and best wishes to you!

In Solidarity,

Michael D. Volpentesta

ADC Executive Board and Executive Committee

After recent retirements at the Executive level, we are pleased to announce our new ADC Executive Board and Executive Committee, pictured from left to right:

Mike Petritis, Executive Vice President and Director - Ceramic Tile, Marble & Terrazzo

Mike Erdenberger - President, Local 21 and Executive Committee member

Ruben Collazo Jr. - Secretary-Treasurer

Michael Volpentesta - President, ADC1 of Illinois

Hector Arellano - Executive Vice President and Director - Pointers, Cleaners & Caulkers

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