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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 ::
Wanted: workers for Akron project Akron Beacon Journal, OH
"Some people who are away from the classroom for some time need a refresher,'' said Dave Moran, business manager of IBEW Local 306 and president of the Tri-County Building and Construction Trades Council.
State-funded school construction projects are exempt from prevailing or union-scale wages, which causes Moran to worry that outsiders will swoop in and do the work on the cheap.
"You see people from out of the area coming in with less skilled workers, undercutting the system, doing the job and leaving town,'' Moran said. "I don't know how the community benefits from that.''------------------------------------------- posted 11:32 AM :: reference link ::
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