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Painters Union member wins award
Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD Painters District Council No. 30 Local Union No. 607 member Sandra Sigala recently received the International Tradeswomen Heroes Award.”
The award is a monthly award established by the North America’s Building Trades Unions to highlight female union trades workers across the U.S. and Canada that lead by example and perform their duties at an outstanding level.
Sigala first joined PDC 30 Local Union No. 607 as an apprentice in 2005. She graduated the program in 2008, earning the Secretary-Treasurer’s Award for her outstanding performance in school, on the job, with the union,and throughout the community. Now a foreman painter, she continues to build upon those performance attributes.
UpdatedWed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:22 am CT
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La Grange Trustee Lou Gale asked his colleagues Monday to choose the second lowest bidder for a project because it is an Illinois firm. The trustees, however, voted 4-1 for the lowest bidder. (Shutterstock)
LA GRANGE, IL A La Grange trustee on Monday proposed choosing the second lowest bidder for a tower painting project because it is an Illinois company, bypassing the low bidder, an out-of-state firm. A union endorsed going that route.
After a debate, the trustees went with the lowest bidder, Seven Brothers Painting of Shelby Township, Mich.
All six bidders half of them from out of state turned in bids far lower than the engineer s estimate of $1.1 million. The bids ranged from $568,000 to $881,000. Wauconda-based Jetco was the second lowest bidder, about $25,000 above the low bid. The village s engineer considered both Seven Brothers and Jetco as qualified bidders.