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Article: Pickets up at new Hobart hotel site.
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- The Times (Munster, IN)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2007
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Byline: Andrea Holecek
Jul. 3--HOBART, Ind. -- The construction company building a $6.7 million Hilton Garden Inn here is threatening to void all union contracts in retaliation for an informational union picket line set up at the site.
Local 2 of the International Union of Elevators Constructors began picketing the site at 7775 Mississippi St. Monday morning to protest the use of workers from Abell Elevator Co., a Kentucky-based, nonunion subcontractor.
The company "isn't paying prevailing wages" to its workers, said Tom Manning, business representative for the Chicago local, which covers Lake and Porter counties.
John Tampa, owner of ...