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Repeat Offender DEP Is Rebuked Over 5 Firings

By DAVID SIMS
Posted 1/6/14

District Council 37 Local 376 won another battle in its long-running conflict with the Department of Environmental Protection, successfully petitioning the Board of Collective Bargaining to rescind the firings of five Apprentice Construction Laborers for what were found to be specious reasons.

The BCB found that DEP had retaliated against those workers, and three others whose probationary periods it extended, because Local 376 was fighting its plan to assign the union’s members to hydraulic mini-excavators.

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