The dispute between labor union giant AFL-CIO and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters has taken another turn. Now, under new leadership, the AFL-CIO has issued an ultimatum of sorts - come back or we'll go on without you (and create a competing carpenters' union). The national dispute reached Kansas City over the weekend, when a group of Carpenters placed a protest banner on the Arrowhead stadium renovation site, claiming that the work being done there by the Sheet Metal Workers' Local 2, should belong to them. Local 2 members were initially confused about whether or not to honor the picket line, but have now largely returned to work. The Carpenters' union has complained.
See "Union quarrel disrupts Arrowhead work", Randolph Heaster, Kansas City Star, October 5, 2009