Deputies called to work site as IBEW officials blocked
Tara Fasol
Staff Writer
As problems continue between the IBEW Local 702 and contact workers for Ameren-CIPS, Franklin County Sheriff's Deputies had to play referee Thursday morning although all three parties have differing opinions about what happened on the rural West Frankfort road.
"The story that I got was that the union called the sheriff and told the sheriff that we were supposedly blocking the road and to my knowledge that is not true," said Owen Specialty President Jerome Barry. "The call was initiated from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers."
IBEW Local 702 Business Representative Steve Hughart said the workers blocked off the road with their trucks not allowing the men to get through on the road.
"They are claiming they are going to get us locked out," Hughart said. "They (Sheriff's Department) had to come out here and straighten these people out."
Franklin County Sheriff Bill Wilson said there was no report filled out and he had no information on the incident.
"It's not us breaking the law," Hughart said.
"No citations have been issued by any authority what so ever," Barry said.
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