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NEWS RELEASE April 29, 2005 For more information, contact Steve Houston at 314/721-2828. LaMantia Named Executive Director of PRIDE of St. Louis Inc. ST. LOUIS – Noted St. Louis labor leader Jim LaMantia has been named executive director of PRIDE of St. Louis Inc. – the nation’s first and oldest voluntary construction labor-management organization. PRIDE, founded in 1972, is an acronym for Productivity and Responsibility Increase Development & Employment. For more than 30 years, PRIDE has worked to maintain harmony and build cooperation among St. Louis area AFL-CIO construction craft workers, contractors, construction buyers, architects, engineers and suppliers. LaMantia will be responsible for carrying out the directives of the PRIDE board of directors and managing day-to-day administration. LaMantia has been active in the St. Louis union construction industry for more than 20 years. He was named the 2004 “Labor Man of the Year” by the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO and was named “Labor Man of the Year” by the St. Louis Port Council in 2002. Before accepting the PRIDE post, LaMantia served as business manager of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers Local #396 for six years. He has been an officer with the iron workers for 21 years. LaMantia most recently served as president of the St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council and vice president of the St. Louis Labor Council.
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