Hayes Mechanical chairman gets MLK award

Left to right are Hayes Senior VP Bob Gabrysiak, Local 1 BM-ST John Skermont, Pam Mooney, IVP (Great Lakes) Larry McManamon, Rick Mooney, Local 374-BM-ST Paul Maday, J.D. Mooney, and Great Lakes Apprentice Program Co-Coordinator Larry McManamon Jr.

RICHARD “RICK” MOONEY, center (in tuxedo), chairman of Hayes Mechanical, a Boilermaker contractor, received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Excellence in Leadership Award for 2008 at a dinner in Chicago recently. The award was presented by the Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Rights (ICDHR) for “promoting the ideals articulated by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” The ICDHR cited Mooney for mentoring to minority business leaders, recruiting and employing minorities, and supporting the people of Chicago and multiculturalism.