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Article: Workers say union official OK'd contract without vote; Conn. Laborers' District Council denies Blakeslee pact charges
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- July 17, 2007
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Some workers at a Branford concrete plant are blasting the
leaders of their own union after the Connecticut Laborers' District
Council signed a labor contract on their behalf.
On June 21, New Haven-based Local 455 signed a three-year
agreement with Blakeslee Prestress Inc., where the union represents
167 workers.
A dozen of the workers have come forward, claiming union
officials signed the labor pact despite the strenuous objections of
the five-member negotiating committee elected by the workers. They
said the union declined to allow a vote among the workers even
though the negotiating committee insisted on it.
"Neither the committee nor the workers ever agreed to the
contract that was ...