Union Pickets Pic ‘n Save in West Bend

Great.

Members of a Milwaukee electricians union spent time Wednesday morning picketing in front of the construction site for the new Pick ’n Save North food store on West Washington Street.

   The abbreviated, 12-member picket line was part of a summerlong protest being conducted against Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc., Milwaukee, by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494 because Roundy’s is using nonunion contractors at its remodeling and construction sites in southeastern Wisconsin.

   The subcontractor doing the electrical work at the West Bend store site is from the Appleton area, said Rick Gutierrez, business representative for the union.

   “The subcontractor doing the work there is using nonunion workers,” he said. “They’re offering a lower wage package. We can’t compete. We’ve lost a lot of our work with (Roundy’s). That’s our dispute.”

Don’t you just love that last line?  “Waaaaaaaa…. our competition is doing the same work for less and we can’t compete!!!!  It’s not FAIR!!!”  Um, yes Rick, you can compete.  You choose not to compete because your union demands that employees be overpaid.