Saturday, November 21, 2009 East Central Illinois

Local union upset about hiring of Florida company

By Mary Schenk
Friday, July 24, 2009 7:30 AM CDT

CHAMPAIGN – Members of the union representing stage hands and riggers who work at the University of Illinois believe the UI has wrongly given their work to a nonunion company from Florida.

More than a dozen members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 482 based in Champaign staged an informational picket near the Assembly Hall on Thursday.

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