Who We Are?

Throughout the early years of the 1950s, 1960s, and up to mid 1970s the masonry work in the London area was predominantly done by Union General Contractors who directly hired their own sub trades one of which was Bricklayers. Examples of some of these Union General Contractors who employed bricklayers directly were Ellis Don Construction, McKay Cocker Construction, John Hayman and Sons, McDougal Contracting, Foundation Company, Evans & Kennedy, Eastern Construction, and Pigott Construction just to name a few. Sometime in the late 1960s to mid 1970s most of the Generals got away from directly hiring tradesman other than Carpenters and Labourers and started the practice of sub-contracting the masonry work out to Unionized Masonry Companies such as, in this area, G&A Masonry, Filipowich Masonry, Fred Barber Masonry and Abe Dick Masonry. There were always non-union masonry contractors around in the London area and one of the Business Manager’s main duties was to unionize as many as possible in order to keep the market share of the area masonry work union for the membership.