Thousands of proud Building Trades members and other union activists rallied in St. Louis on June 15 to tell local Carpenters leader Terry Nelson and UBC General President Doug McCarron to stop attacking the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and stealing its work.
The IBEW is launching a sweeping campaign to convince St. Louis Carpenters Local 57 to stop performing electrical work that undercuts union standards of quality, safety and wages. Billboards have been mounted in several locations, and the message can be seen and heard in radio and print ads this week.
Says IBEW International President Edwin D. Hill:
It isn’t news that the construction market is depressed; IBEW members in St. Louis are facing 35 percent unemployment. We should be working together to win contracts to put building trades members back to work and preserving good jobs in St. Louis and across the country. Now is not the time to be fighting each other.
Rolling billboards start circulating in other cities this week, including Las Vegas, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh.
Says one of the fliers that will be handed out to Building Trades members across the United States:
While nonunion carpenters are working and UBC members sit on the bench, WHY is Nelson spending his members' dues signing sweetheart deals with nonunion electrical contractor and lowering wage and benefit standards set by St. Louis Local 1 over generations.
To tell Doug McCarron to do his job and focus on his work, not everybody else's call 202-546-6206.
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