More Union Protests at Lakeville Walmart Construction Site
Local 512, a local ironworkers union, staged a solidarity march with other unions 7 a.m. on Friday at the new Walmart site in Lakeville. The unions were protesting the subcontractor's use of non-union laborers.
Protests by a local labor union over the use of what they call "underpaid construction workers" who are erecting steel at Lakeville's new Walmart site, is escalating. For the second consecutive Friday, members of Local 512, a St. Paul-based ironworkers union, gathered outside the Walmart construction site along Keokuk Avenue near the Lakeville 21 movie theater. But this morning at 7 a.m., they were joined by union workers from other labor unions around the region to participate in a "solidarity march" against what Local 512 calls the "exploitation of the workers" on the Walmart construction site by the project's subcontractor, AME Construction of Wayzata. According to Local 512, members from other unions including metal workers, …
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Box937
4:35 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
You say the union workers would like to see "ANYONE" doing ironwork getting the same opportunities. But they repeatedly make threats to, and call non-union members "rats" Funny how you completely left that part out. Someone who owns a PRIVATE company can make a deal with another PRIVATE company to build them a new facility whenever they want, and if they want to use union or non-union labor is … more ›