Pickets Pressure Contractor to Drop Non-Union Workers By Phil Wayne, The Lookout News, CA
Wednesday’s relatively small but boisterous display -- and its impact on workers in the building -- showcased the larger dilemma faced by contractors and laborers across the country, who must each decide whether or not to go the union route.
Non-union laborers afraid of triggering union pickets and possibly losing work, as well as contractors apprehensive about negative publicity and job delays, spoke in guarded tones and were even reluctant to give full names.