IBEW Local 1 pickets AT&T, McAlister’s Deli

Arnold, MO – IBEW Local 1 Business Representative Chuck DeMoulin (center) and electricians Rick Dinnella (left) and Chad Riddle are picketing and hand-billing two new Arnold businesses in the Water Tower Place Shopping Center for using non-union electrical contractors who pay below area standard wages and benefits established by IBEW Local 1.Reinhold Electric, a contractor with Local 57 – a non-AFL-CIO electricians union – is performing the initial structure work at the AT&T store at 2245 Michigan Ave. and at neighboring McAlister’s Deli at 2249 Michigan Ave. Southwestern Electric, a non-union contractor, is completing the tenant finish at McAlister’s. – Labor Tribune photo