State workers decry imported labor for $15 million project benefiting HCMC

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Workday Minnesota

ROGERS - Minnesota construction workers – who face the bleakest job outlook in the nation – will protest Wednesday at the site of a multi-million-dollar facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center that is being built with out-of-state labor.

HCMC, one of Minnesota’s leading publicly operated medical centers, in alliance with Illinois-based Medline, maker and distributor of more than 125,000 health-care products, is behind the current construction of a $15 million distribution center in Rogers by a California company using labor from outside of Minnesota.

Members of the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council will rally Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the 350,000-square-foot construction site at 13115 Brockton Lane N., Rogers. Their message: Minnesota projects need Minnesota workers.

“If we don’t look out for each other, nobody will,” said Dan McConnell, business manager for the council, a labor union coalition representing 17,000 members and challenging the choice of California-based Panattoni Construction for the building’s construction.

Read more: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5023

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FULL story at link.

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1. Are the workers all going to be imported from other countries with visas? nt

[Mnemosyne]

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