'I Helped Build the Stadium'

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
"Soon it will be the workplace for Ryan Zimmerman, Dmitri Young and other members of the Washington Nationals. But for nearly two years, the sprawling site off South Capitol Street SE was the domain of men and women who wore hard hats instead of baseball helmets, leather boots instead of spikes," wrote Washington Post  reporter Hamil R. Harris last week. "More than 2,700 people helped build the ballpark -- immigrants, war veterans, people on their first jobs, longtime D.C. residents, tradesmen and women who traveled hundreds of miles for a chance to work on the project. Electricians, ironworkers, carpenters, plumbers, laborers, you name it, tended to the details." Click here to read Harris' report, and to watch a video of the stadium workers.