In yet another complicated twist to the Pennsylvania Convention Center saga, members of the Teamsters local that had lost the right to work in the building are back in the building working. How did it happen? When it comes to this building, nothing is ever straightforward. In May 2014, two of the six unions that worked in the building setting up trade shows lost jurisdiction when their leaders failed to sign a new customer satisfaction agreement by a management-imposed deadline. Negotiating with SMG, the center's outside management firm, the leaders of the four other unions divvied up the two unions' work and dramatically led members across a picket line set up by the two ousted unions. By...
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