No symbol defined the moment better than this one: UA General President Martin Maddaloni walking around the convention in a polo shirt bearing the MCAA logo.
It was the first convention in which the Mechanical Contractors Association of America and the United Association had a joint meeting of their executive committees. It may have been the first one in which the UA general president and most, if not all, of his cadre stuck around for the entire MCAA convention, held Feb. 1-6 at the Scottsdale Princess Resort in Arizona.