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Picketers Protest Dollar Tree Contractor
A local carpenters' union placed protesters outside the former Rite Aid location Wednesday.
Five Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters members were walking the picket line on Wednesday at the former Eckerd/Rite Aid location on the corner of Lewis Road and Ridge Pike. The location is currently being remodeled into a Dollar Tree store, and the union members were there protesting against Camporini Contracting. The contractor is owned by Tom Camporini and located in Warren County, NJ. Camporini is remodeling the store under contract from Dollar Tree. The union's picket signs accuse Camporini of not honoring "carpenter area wages and standards". Tom Camporini told Patch that the union says he isn't paying the going rate, but they don't actually know what he pays his employees. "They want to see my books, and I refused," …
Dynamo47
5:49 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
My father was in the steelworkers union his entire life. Back then, the unions actually did what they were created for; to provide workers with safe working conditions and consistent salary protection. Today the unions have evolved into a corrupt money making enterprise for the unions and their leaders. I have no problem with Bottom Dollar hiring a non-union team to do the work. If the non-union … more ›