Ironworkers and Their President Are Polishing Up Performance

摘要

The president and his entourage enter the Washington, D.C., restaurant and head to their table. A small cluster of patrons, probably tourists, does a double take and then stares. "Is it him?" one of the crowd asks a member of the entourage she mistakes for a Secret Service agent. "Yes," replies the aide, aware of what will come next because this is not the first case of mistaken identity. The women ask to meet the president and the aide obliges. But it is not President Bill Clinton that they meet. It is General President Joseph J. Hunt, head of the ironworkers' union. Hunt occasionally is mistaken for the former president and will sometimes play along with his staff when they have a little fun with the autograph seekers. But Hunt has a bigger mission―revitalizing a union that has been rocked by scandal and seen its market share slide along with almost every other building trade union.