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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Saturday, February 14, 2004 ::
Hawaiian Cement, union still at odds By Mary Vorsino
Ron Taketa, financial secretary and business representative with the Hawaii Carpenters Union, said yesterday that as many as 1,000 carpenters could be laid off if strikes drag on for another week.
'Our contractors have been doing everything possible to keep our carpenters employed,' Taketa said. '(But) there's only so far the contractors can go.'
He said more than 75 of his union's carpenters have already been laid off because of the concrete strikes, and more will follow if the work stoppages continue. Within the next two weeks, 600 to 700 carpenters working on residential properties in the Ewa Plains and about 300 carpenters employed at the Wal-Mart project near Ala Moana Center could be laid off because of the strikes, he said.
'Just when we see the light at the end of the tunnel,' Taketa said, alluding to the recently ended recession in the construction industry, 'and all of a sudden there's no concrete.'------------------------------------------- posted 8:19 AM :: reference link ::
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