When customers show up at the Trolley Car Diner in Mount
Airy, they're greeted not only with the smell of fresh coffee, but with union
workers carrying signs and telling customers not to eat there.
They're protesting owner Ken Weinstein, who is renovating
St. Peters Church in Germantown to turn it into a private school — without
using union labor.
Weinstein says he put out a bid to three contractors,
including one union contractor, but the union folks were outbid. Weinstein told
NBC10 that the protests have gone over the line. Weinstein says, he and his son
tried to make peace by bringing the protesters coffee and doughnuts. A
protester responded by saying 'we know where you live, and we'll visit you,'
according to Weinstein.
That forced him to make a police complaint, but no charges
were filed.
IBEW Local Business Manager John Dougherty said in a
statement to NBC10 that the union is doing nothing wrong.
"Ken Weinstein is
a greedy profiteer. IBEW Local 98 is conducting a peaceful, lawful protest at
his businesses because he is violating area wages and benefit standards…
Weinstein is a fraud and has been put on legal notice to cease and desist with
his lies about Local 98."
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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