An on-again, off-again dispute between the expanding CVS pharmacy chain and the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council is back. The year 2004 ended with hopes that a long-delayed meeting had won an understanding that CVS would choose union contractors to build its new stores.
When the next opportunity came for CVS to build a new store with union labor, however, a non-union contractor was selected, reported Dick Anfang, president of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council. "We thought we had agreed to work together," Anfang said. "There?s no reason we can't compete with our folks."
In response, both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Building Trades Councils have asked the state council to draft a letter to the trades' health insurance companies asking that CVS be dropped from lists of preferred providers. "We don't want to do that, but if time goes by, there's going to be a little problem," Anfang said.
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An on-again, off-again dispute between the expanding CVS pharmacy chain and the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council is back. The year 2004 ended with hopes that a long-delayed meeting had won an understanding that CVS would choose union contractors to build its new stores.
When the next opportunity came for CVS to build a new store with union labor, however, a non-union contractor was selected, reported Dick Anfang, president of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council. “We thought we had agreed to work together,” Anfang said. “There?s no reason we can’t compete with our folks.”
In response, both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Building Trades Councils have asked the state council to draft a letter to the trades’ health insurance companies asking that CVS be dropped from lists of preferred providers. “We don’t want to do that, but if time goes by, there’s going to be a little problem,” Anfang said.
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Building Trades, CVS sketch out potential truce