Following a morning of picketing at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center by hundreds of union carpenters, the center's management and
Local 8 of the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters reached an agreement
Friday, extending the current collective bargaining agreement, which expired
April 30, until May 10.
The carpenters are returning to work on Friday, in time to
help with the dismantling of a convention held by 13,000 neurologists, set to
end Saturday, a convention center spokesman said.
Since beginning picketing Thursday, the carpenters had been
both on strike and in a lockout. They were the only union of the six working at
the center to picket, and mostly picketed in the loading ramp areas.
Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local 107 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Local 332
of the Laborers International Union of North America signed extensions until
May 6.
Among the issues are work rules governing how much work
individual exhibitors can do on their own booths.
Collective bargaining agreements are still in effect for
unions representing stagehands and ironworkers.
Source: Philly.com
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