UNITED ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

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An activist group is targeting a Michigan company that’s already facing a federal lawsuit containing allegations of racial harassment on the job.

About 75 protest participants took issue with Greene’s recent support of United Electrical Contractors. ABC of Michigan serves as a trade association statewide for contracting companies, including United Electrical Contractors. In the statement, he called the lawsuit “bogus” and an attempt by a competing, union organization — International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — to oust the nonunion United Electrical Contractors from a job it won in a contract bid. “There were complaints filed (against United Electrical Contractors), and if they’re found guilty, they should have every kind of repercussion there is,” said Greene, of Saginaw Township. He said Greene “turned a blind eye to justice” by coming to the defense of United Electrical Contractors.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Former workers of a Michigan electrical contracting business and dozens of their supporters demonstrated near a downtown Ann Arbor construction site Thursday, Jan. 27, protesting what they described as “obscenely racist” treatment of workers on job sites. Protesters gathered Thursday across from The Standard, a 10-story high-rise being built in downtown Ann Arbor by Georgia-based Landmark Properties. In speeches during Thursday’s protest and in written testimonies, they discussed racism and discrimination they said they experienced on other job sites in Michigan. Tavera said he worked as an apprentice electrician for United Electrical in 2020 and heard white employees and managers use the N-word regularly. MORE FROM THE ANN ARBOR NEWS:Ann Arbor tampon law now in effect, petition calls on University of Michigan to abideNew downtown Ann Arbor development will create housing for artists, homeless20-story development headed to Ann Arbor City Council for approvalAnn Arbor considering proposal for ‘radical transparency’ in local policing5 highlights from Ann Arbor’s latest equity and inclusion report

Six former employees of United Electrical Contractors filed a lawsuit against the Lansing-based company.

Six former employees of United Electrical Contractors in Michigan filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, alleging they were routinely subjected to “obscenely racist behaviors and...