Painters Keep Wall Work But Blast 'Raid' Tactics

摘要

Relations between union painters and carpenters have soured again as the two trades contest the right to represent workers who perform wall finishing work, most recently in Iowa and Nebraska. The international painters' union claims it successfully fended off the international carpenters' union in three recent votes at small dry-wall firms in Des Moines and Omaha, with two more elections set July 22 in Ankeny, Iowa, and again in Omaha.