[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 120 (Monday, October 2, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO BOAZ SIEGEL

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                          HON. SANDER M. LEVIN

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 2, 2000

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, on October 20, 2000, Pipefitters Local 636 of 
the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing 
and Pipefitting Industry in southeastern Michigan will dedicate their 
new hall in honor of a distinguished attorney and its long-time friend, 
Boaz Siegel.
  It represents a fitting testament to the decades of service of Boaz 
Siegel to the thousands of rank and file members of Pipefitters Local 
636 and their families. As has been true in a number of vital areas 
within the construction industry in Michigan, Boaz Siegel was a pioneer 
in crafting, on a cooperative basis with labor and management, a series 
of trust funds covering the health, pension, vacation and employment 
security needs of countless numbers of hardworking families. He has 
faithfully helped these funds to grow and prosper during a remarkable 
nearly fifty years as legal counsel and adviser.
  During three of these decades, Boaz Siegel was a professor at the law 
school of Wayne State University, providing stimulating and rigorous 
teaching and training in the fields of labor, administrative and 
contract law to thousands of students who have become vital links in 
the legal profession throughout Michigan and the nation.
  His intellectual brilliance combined with high integrity and the 
ability to see various sides of an argument led to service in many 
fields of public service. He used his insights as a lawyer who had 
represented key sectors of the labor movement to help fashion, with 
other labor and management appointees of Governor George Romney on a 
Special Commission, a report leading to long overdue reforms of the 
workers' compensation laws of Michigan in the mid-sixties. Earlier he 
had served on the Wayne County Board of Supervisors and was appointed 
by the U.S. Secretary of Labor as a public member of the National 
Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans.
  I fully hope, as one who benefitted from Boaz Siegel's professional 
talents and rigor in law practice and as a long-time friend of his and 
his wife Bess, to be present at the building dedication on October 20. 
It will be a real privilege and pleasure for all of us assembled for 
this happy and worthy event for a truly worthy human being.

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