Derald Flamand, Ironworkers Local 97
Colin Briggeman, Sheet Metal Local 280 Colin writes: Got this blue Local 280 Hard hat handed to me by Greg Mooney when I started with the Union in ’92, and I’ve had to put in a liner three times over the years. It’s seen a lot of places and earned me a lot of money. Dustin Heinrich, Ironworkers Local 97 Dustin writes: My best friend’s dad, Chico Gyruska, painted this for me. He used to weld on aircraft and is a very talented artist. This hard hat means a lot to me as a tradesman. He wouldn’t just paint this for anybody.
Derald writes: I am submitting the attached pictures of my father’s hard hat that was cracked open in February 1984 when he suffered a catastrophic workplace accident while working on the Dunsmuir tunnel building the SkyTrain line in downtown Vancouver. My father was 43 years-old at the time and a career Local 97 Ironworker
like myself. While he survived, albeit injured at the time, it was ultimately because of this fibreglass hard hat that he wore that day. He is now 81 years old and living in a care home due to Alzheimer’s disease. His name, Wally Flamand, and Ironworkers Local 97 are proudly displayed below the International Union of Operating Engineers sticker on the front of this hard hat.
Robert Newman, IUOE Local 115 Robert writes: My hard hat has travelled up and down the coast of B.C. from Vancouver Island to Haida Gwaii for over 30 years. It was lost for six months and then recovered. It has fallen overboard and been retrieved many times. It is beaten up and held together with layers of stickers. Each one of them is a
Keith Halverson, LiUNA Local 1611
memory. Hopefully it will take me through to my retirement.
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers—Local #2 B.C.
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