Union protests at Merion Golf Club

    The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America continue to picket at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore — the site of the 2013 U.S. Open.

    The union is protesting the “United States Golf Association’s failure to honor the terms of a month-old labor agreement between the carpenters and the USGA for work at Merion Golf Club.”

    The Carpenters Union this week that they had run out of money and the workers were no longer required.

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