Michigan unions protest non-local labor at UP Health System construction site

Local unions protested Monday at the yet to be completed UP Health System-Marquette (Mich.) facility, a subsidiary of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Duke LifePoint Healthcare, reports The Mining Journal.

The more than 100 union members called for using more local workers for the $300 million project, the report states.

"When we first started talking to Lifepoint about this project, one of their emphases was on hiring local contractors where possible, and putting local people to work. That's not happening right now," Mike Thibault, business representative for the building construction trades in the Upper Peninsula, said in the report. "There is a couple of portions of this hospital work that have been subcontracted to a contractor out of Florida that is importing all of his workforce. We haven't had an opportunity for any assistance in sitting down with that contractor to see if we could reach some compromise and put some local folks to work."

Victor Harrington, regional director marketing and business development for UPHS- Marquette, was unable to provide The Mining Journal with comment before press time.

 

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