Ironworkers rise up to expose untrained, underpaid workers at Lakeville Walmart site

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5136

17 February 2012

Lakeville - More than 200 Iron Workers and supporters conducted an area standard picket at a construction site in Lakeville Friday, to call attention to the fact that unskilled and underpaid workers are erecting the steel for a Walmart Supercenter. With video.

Produced by Barb Kucera and John See, Labor Education Service

Members of Local 512 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers marched to the site near the Highway 70 / 210th St. exit off Interstate 35W. They held signs to educate the public about the exploitation of the poorly trained laborers who are being paid substandard wages by subcontractor AME Construction of Wayzata.


“It’s time to stand up for our brothers and sisters who are the best at what they do but are being left on the sidelines,” said Charlie Roberts, business manager for Local 512, which has not picketed a job site in Minnesota since the late 1990s.

“AME is exploiting workers,” Roberts added, “and it’s time for them to stop these deplorable business practices.”

FULL story at link.

For more information, visit http://www.ironworkers512.com/

[phasma ex machina]

1. k&r good luck guys.

[Brickbat]

2. Shameful. Wal-Mart has actually built union many times here in MN.

[bvar22]

3. If we had a Political Party that represented the American Working Class,

things would have never gotten so bad.

One can NOT support "Free Trade"
and be Pro-LABOR, or Pro-American Working Class at the same time.
The two positions are mutually exclusive.
QED: the previous 20 years

Choose ONE.
I am Pro-LABOR.


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