Union dispute slows Lodi Unified projects By Neil Gonzales, Stockton Record, CA
The Manteca-based Carpenters union Local 25 plans to picket this week at the Ronald McNair High School site just north of Stockton or at another Lodi Unified project. The union already picketed at McNair a week ago, stopping much of the work there for a day.
'We do plan to protest again,' union field representative Andrew Uvalles said.
'Wherever Diede is at, we got the right to protest.'
Uvalles accuses Diede, a nonunion construction company based in Lodi, of firing workers who have expressed interest in organizing and of underpaying workers.