Local union protests concrete company

Tim Thurman of Laborers Local 662, at right, visits with pedestrian Terry Larkin as he keeps company with an inflatable rat to protest the city’s contract with a non-union company hired to construct replacement sidewalks on Broadway Street. Photo by Julie Smith.

By Madeleine Leroux

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

A large rat sits on the corner of Broadway and the Rex Whitton Expressway in Jefferson City -- a form of protest against a local company using non-union laborers on a city project.

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Tim Thurman, with Laborers’ Local 662, stood with the inflatable rat Tuesday morning to protest work being done by Concrete Engineering, a local firm, on Broadway Street.

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stop1 1 year ago

Mr. Thurman and the union should be upset with the union contractor that bid the project not the city. The government has already given union contractor an advantage with prevailing wage laws. With the cost being higher for a non-union contractor looks like someone was trying to cut a fat hog.

mleroux 1 year ago

To clarify, Laborers' Local 662 is protesting the contractor, Concrete Engineering, not the city.

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him 1 year ago

So they are protesting a company for trying to make a living?

wyriontair 1 year ago

Unions don't want anyone to make a living if it doesn't include them calling the shots. If the Concrete Company does the job correctly then they may win more contracts with the city, if they don't do well, they won't. It's called "free enterprise"

russ65034 1 year ago

You hit the nail on the head Him. And guess what else they have a former union employee working for them on that job because the union hasn't worked him since '08 and yet he still had to pay dues. So who is screwing who. Unions are one of the main reasons this country is in the shape it's in. There was a time when they were needed but that time has come and gone.

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