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 | | The workers Diamond hired, who do not belong to a union, were hired through Labor Pool, a non-union inner city Boston organization that, according to the picketers, hires out workers for less than the prevailing wage. |
 | | It’s not the same.” That the picketers live in the Town of Milton, whereas the hired workers are from the inner city, may entitle these protesters “at least to be given the opportunity to work here,” as one picketer said. |
 | | Thus, the picketers’ key issue is not about unions, so much as it is about their having been turned down for the job of Milton’s new dormitories, not necessarily for being inferior, but for demanding to be paid the salary that the government pays on public jobs, while other workers settled for less. |
| www.milton.edu /News/pages/picketers_lawrence.doc (863 words) |
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