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X ` Man

On 10/4/11 7:58 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:05:32 -0400, X `
wrote:

That still does not address the jurisdictional issue. The union will
tell the GC who they have to hire ... unless they want to get
struck.

You don't mean "jurisdictional" issue.

Certainly. If you have a guy who is not in the Operating Engineers,
running the backhoe (maybe an out of work carpenter) The OE union will
say that is "their" job and start a jurisdictional dispute.
I grew up around this. My mom worked at the Teamsters International
and that was pretty much what she did all day, trying to arbitrate
this bull****..

While there are jurisdictional disputes, they rarely are between trades
as disparate as operating engineers and carpenters, and usually those
disputes are settled at the local union level, rarely on the jobsite.

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