Carpenters Take Fight for Fair Wages to Gravois
The Carpenters' District Council is demonstrating outside Southside Guns & Ammo to dispute wages offered by Kuehnle Construction.
The Carpenters' District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity is campagning for better wages and benefits in front of Southside Guns & Ammo on Gravois Road. "We'd like a resolution, and maybe we get one and maybe we don't," said Scott Byrne, a representitive for the council. Byrne said the store is building a firing range where Gravois Road splits off to Seibert Ave. Demonstrators handed out flyers to passersby explaining their cause: The Carpenters' District Council have been leaders in our community's...struggle for equal employment opprotunity and decent standard of living for all those wanting to enter the skill trades. Receipt of a fair wage with good health insurace and pension benefits, such as those obtained by the Carpenters…
dave garren
5:42 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Something tells me the folks working on this job have the same skill and are taking home the same pay as the union carpenter's. Seems to me the only thing missing is the vig to the union. THAT is why they are picketing - no money going into the "bosses" pockets. more ›