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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Protestors Take To Route 1 Over LA Fitness Contractor

Coalition protest labor issues at an LA Fitness construction site in Laurel.

Washington, D.C., and Baltimore-area labor unions and advocacy groups are asking LA Fitness to intervene in a labor dispute between workers and a subcontractor at the health club chain’s Laurel construction site. The group, a coalition that includes Iron Workers Union Local 16 and Casa De Maryland among others, calls itself the V.O.I.C.E. Coalition and says its speaking on behalf of laborers on the site. The group contends that about a half dozen workers at the site in the Laurel Shopping Center, working under a subcontractor Baltimore-based Winkler’s Inc., have faced adverse working conditions, including no breaks and a lack of safety equipment, among other complaints. About 20 members of the coalition, including laborers who worked for …

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Denise

2:37 pm on Monday, March 19, 2012

This is probably one of the most ignorant racist comments I have ever read.   more ›

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