Looks like the Ed Coryell and the Carpenters Union (obligatory disclaimer: they are investors in the company that owns the Inquirer) have chosen NOT to picket a minority contracting job networking event at City Hall today. At least not so far.
Although Coryell declined to talk to the Inquirer, he expressed his displeasure with the event to plenty of other folks. It wasn't the goal of helping minority construction firms get more work that ticked him off, but rather the sponsor: Associated Builders and Contractors, an organization that labor considers anti-union. In the extreme. Consider the words of Pat Gillespie, business manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, when he talked to Heard in the Hall about ABC late last month: "The whole predicate for their existence is to destroy the sanctity of collective bargaining. We couldn't hold them in any lower regard. They're as disingenuous a group as you can find. I wouldn't expect City Hall to allow the Klan to meet there, or Aryan Nation."
In any event, no carpenters are lined up around City Hall. The show has gone on.
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