Members of carpenters’ Union Local 845 of Delaware County are protesting work being done at the former gap store location in Glen Eagle Square in Concord Township.
Council Representative Mike Wells said the union is protesting the Keystone Interior Systems, Inc., one of the contractors for “destruction of area standards.”
Wells said Keystone is a union shop but is paying wages below an area standards agreement.
“There are standards that are set out here. It’s a wage that’s put in throughout the county. Contractors who work out in the area put that in to get a prevailing rate for the area so people [can make] a good living wage,” Wells said.
Wells and others started picketing earlier this week. He said the picketing would continue “for as long as the area standards are being destroyed.”
There was no one available from Keystone at the job site who could comment, nor was there anyone available from Glen Eagle’s management.
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Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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