Local 533 plumbers donate skills, time to restore homeowner's water service
Brighton, IL – Diane Brandt hadn’t been able to get the water flowing for about three months into her small, tidy house in Brighton, the village north of Alton where Macoupin County meets Jersey County.
She didn’t have money for a big plumbing project, either, so she called on the United Way for help. That led to a crew of union plumbers coming out on a sunny Saturday morning, March 16, to make a new connection.
The plumbers were from Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 533, based in East Alton. The crew is employed by Inspector Plumber, which serves the entire Metro-East area.
Nick Dodson, one of the Metro-East Labor liaisons for United Way, worked with Local 533 Business Manager Herb Frohock and Scott Smith of Inspector Plumber to put together the equipment and crew for a job, including Local 533’s Jake Dressler, Christian Kanon, Kurt Ansell and Joseph Smith.
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