The final labor dispute to affect the Federal Triangle complex construction was a jurisdictional strike over the installation of library shelving at the National Archives building in November 1935.
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A slight problem in construction occurred when 30 unionized carpenters walked off the job on October 8 in a jurisdictional strike with the Laborers'Union over unloading of material.
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On February 14, 1934, 225 carpenters engaged in a jurisdictional strike against the cement finishers'union at the Labor / ICC building over the installation of tile flooring.
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But just three weeks later, the plasterers'union led a jurisdictional strike against the stonecutters'union at the Labor / ICC building because the stonecutters were installing acoustical marble columns.
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The government claimed that the union's traditional methods of protecting its members'work jurisdictional strikes, resistance to work-displacing technology, and featherbedding were illegal restraints of trade.
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The carpenters, then the second-largest union in the AFL, withdrew from the Building Trades and initiated a series of jurisdictional strikes against the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers at job sites nationwide.
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A jurisdictional strike in United States labor law refers to a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a union to assert its members right to particular job assignments and to protest the assignment of disputed work to members of another union or to unorganized workers.
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The winner of a jurisdictional strike more often than not was also the union which had more power either more members, or members whose work was critical to construction work ( such as " operating engineers " ) rather than the union whose workers were best suited for the job.
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In addition, employers campaigned over the years to outlaw a number of union practices such as closed shops, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, mass picketing, strikes in violation of contractual no-strike clauses, pension and health and welfare plans sponsored by unions and multi-employer bargaining.
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With the Depression deepening, contractors were pressing for a 27.3 percent wage cut with their unions, particularly the steamfitters unions engaged in a jurisdictional strike against one another, stopping work at the Post Office construction site, but the AFL intervened and arbitrated a solution to the dispute.
