Haggerty named to NMAPC board of directors

David Haggerty

Committee negotiates, administers national maintenance agreements for 14 unions

DAVID HAGGERTY, Director of National Construction Agreements and Special Assistant to the International President, has been appointed to the National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee Inc. (NMAPC) board of directors effective Feb. 4.

Haggerty credits his appointment by the new NMAPC board chairman, Brent Booker from the Laborers union, as a direct result of the number of man-hours Boilermakers work under the National Maintenance Agreement.

“The Boilermakers work about 12 million man-hours each year under this agreement. That’s about one-third of the total man-hours worked annually by all of the trades under the NMA,” said Haggerty, a 30-year member of Local 45 (Richmond, Va.).

The NMAPC negotiates and administers national maintenance agreements, a series of collective-bargaining agreements used by more than 2,500 industrial contractors who employ members of 14 building trades unions (including the Boilermakers). Although there are 14 separate agreements, they are nearly identical. The agreements provide a cost-effective vehicle for contractors and skilled building trades workers to perform construction, maintenance, and repair work for the country’s industrial and manufacturing base.

It is based in the philosophy of tripartite cooperation between the customer, contractor, and union craft personnel. To date, the NMAPC program has accounted for more than $300 billion of work and more than two billion man-hours for the building trades and contractors.