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:: Thursday, March 25, 2004 ::
Carpenters union takes on contractors CBC - Prince Edward Island
CHARLOTTETOWN — The P.E.I. Carpenters Union is setting itself up as a contractor in a direct challenge to other contractors in the province.
The union is a establishing a new residential construction company which will pay higher rates to carpenters. The business itself will be non-profit.
The union has been trying for years to get private building contractors to raise wages for carpenters. Its new company will pay Island carpenters $20 an hour, that's $5 to $10 more an hour than they earn working for private contractors.
"We certainly asked all the contractors to get on side earlier, before we went to this measure," says Paul Chaisson of the carpenter's union, "but being as they weren't going to accept our deal, we said well we're going to try this."------------------------------------------- posted 6:55 AM :: reference link ::
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