PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Heads up, non-union contractors.
Philadelphia’s electrician’s union has a new tool for keeping tabs on your
construction site.
Drones. Local 98 president John Dougherty says the union
has three of them.
“They’re out and about,” said Dougherty.
Dougherty says the union bought them a few months ago, to
deploy at job sites where they suspect work rule violations and at union
protests of those sites, for video evidence that members don’t violate any
rules while protesting.
“We are clever. I have a lot of young people around me
these days who are into social media and all cutting edge apparatus and
whatever we need to do to be competitive within the rules, we’re going to do.”
Lawyer Wally Zimolong thinks it might not be within the
rules. He represents the owner of the construction site in the union’s
demonstration video on YouTube and says it could be used in a way that violates
labor laws.
On the other hand, he grudgingly admits, it could be
effective.
“He has a pretty good track record of achieving his
ends….there’s some suspicion that this video was placed out there to chill any
ideas other developers might have about construction a project in the city of
Philadelphia that might not utilize union labor.”
Source: CBS
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