Skyline of Richmond, Virginia Painters Union members picket Lackawanna College

[Omaha Steve]

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May 2009 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton edition of The Union News

Painters Union members picket Lackawanna College

BY PAUL TUCKER
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SCRANTON, April 17th- Members of the Painters and Allied Trades International Union Local 218 conducted informational picketing in front of the Lackawanna College Student Activities Center on Jefferson Avenue in Scranton on May 1st and May 4th protesting the hiring of a nonunion contractor by the school to renovate the facility.

According to Robert Griffiths, Business Representative of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 21, as many as five of his members could have been hired if Lackawanna College employed a union contractor. Mr. Griffiths stated the project involve funds provided by the state and/or federal government and workers should be paid wages covered under the Prevailing Wage Act. He participated in picketing the center and stated the union is investigating into whether workers of the nonunion contractor were being paid the wages required under the legislation.

There are union workers employed on the renovation project including members of the Sheet Metal Workers International Union Local 44, which would not cross the picket line of the Painters Union on May 1st. Local 44 members are installing new duck vents throughout the facility. Because of the refusal of the Sheet Metal Workers members to cross the picket line, the daily renovation construction was halted.

The protest included a ten foot high inflatable rat with Lackawanna College President Ray Angeli name posted on the front.

FULL story at link.

[underpants]

1. Wow we have a union site???

thanks for the link.

[kegler14]

2. I hate to say this, but the author either needs to learn to write

properly or needs an editor. People do form quick first impressions.