PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia’s Convention Center is dealing with four unions now that Carpenters Local 8 and Teamsters Local 107 missed a deadline last week to agree to new work rules.
Convention Center officials say those unions will no longer work at the center starting midnight Saturday.
But officials for those unions plan to fight that decision come Monday.
The center’s management has blamed former work rules for chasing larger events away from the facility.
Under the new work rules, exhibitors can build larger display booths without union help and use tools like stepladders and screwdrivers while doing so. The old union rules prohibited that. It’s also no longer necessary to have a union electrician plug in computers.
The center is now dealing with local unions for Laborers, Electrical Workers, Stagehands and Iron Workers.
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