*This article was originally published in the September 2024 issue of The Electrical Worker Online Several years ago, members of Kitchener, Ontario, Local 804 started taking notice of a nonunion contractor doing business in the local’s jurisdiction, and they had a hunch. “Our organizers kept seeing this company showing up more and more on resumes,…
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