You Do Not Have to Work Behind a Double Gate!
Honorable Union Members Respect Picket Lines!

A honorable union member is extremely careful when confronted with a picket line situation.
When a picket line is established on a job where he is working

Bricklayers Picket For Walgreens Jobs Six union bricklayers upset over a builder’s use of nonunion workers began picketing Thursday outside a Walgreens drugstore that is being built on New Falls Road near Bristol-Oxford Valley Road. George Posner, business agent for Local 1 of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft workers said his union is picketing because The Bannett Group td. Based in Cherry Hill is using nonunion workers to help build the drugstore at the site of the former Club Diamond. He said several contractors from his union submitted bids but none were hired. The Courier Times was unsuccessful in reaching the Bannett Group for comment. Bristol Township resident George Bouffard joined other union workers under a tent outside the construction site Thursday. He said the company’s use of nonunion bricklayers hurt his chances for a job.

Left to Right: Tod Duncan/Dennis Pagliotti/Joe Battaglia/Vincent Cortilesso/Kevin Doerr
 

• He leaves. He does not talk – just leaves.

• He does not hang around near the job.

• He reads the picket sign as he leaves

• He knows that once a picket line is established, his business agents and other union officials  are legally gagged and   hand cuffed from giving advice pertaining that job.

  They can only tell him if the picket line is authorized.

• He does not allow himself to be drawn into conversations with anyone at the job site.
 
THE RIGHTS OF AN HONORABLE UNION MEMBER

• He has the right not to work behind any picket line

• He has the right to decide for himself whether to walk off a job being picketed.

• He understands that his trade may be under attack next

• He knows that a two-gate system means a picket line and he has the right not to work, no matter how many gates the employer sets up.

Know your rights, and be prepared ahead of time to react to picket lines.