Carpenters' protest looks like picket line, but postal workers cross into Pa. Convention Center

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Never cross a picket line. ESPECIALLY when you are asking for help with your own unions problems.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//item/70631-carpenters-protest-looks-like-picket-line-but-postal-workers-cross-into-pa-convention-center-/

JULY 21, 2014




Members of the carpenters union protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center Monday. Postal workers are having their annual meeting there. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

BY TOM MACDONALD

When is a picket line called a protest? That may be the situation when another union just walks by the signs.

The carpenters union called its demonstration Monday in Philadelphia a protest, but the scene outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center resembled a picket line with music. It was designed to attract the attention of the U.S. Postal Service workers having their convention inside the building.

The carpenters union is angry that it's been excluded from a new work rules agreement at the center. Center officials counter that the union missed a deadline for signing.

Carpenter Ron Curran, who said he was the last carpenter to complete work at the Convention Center, said the union is unfairly keeping him and the other union members off the job.

FULL story at link.



Carpenter Ron Curran was he says his union is being unfairly kept off the job at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Tom MacDonald/(WHYY)

[TBF]

1. That was not a good move by the postal workers. nt