LANSING — A months-long union strike at one of Michigan’s largest road building firms has delayed some pavement projects and shows no signs of letting up as the summer construction season nears an end.

Instead, it’s turned to crap. Literally, according to a National Labor Relations Board complaint filed Aug. 28 by Operating Engineers 324, a Metro Detroit-based union that represents road builders trained to operate heavy machinery.

Indiana-based Rieth-Riley Construction Co. “interfered with, restrained and coerced employees’ [union] rights by spraying water and depositing large quantities of animal feces at location where employees are picketing,” a union attorney alleged in the federal complaint.

The mess was discovered when striking workers returned to their picket line perch outside a Rieth-Riley asphalt plant in Grand Rapids and found a pile of “over 100 pounds of turkey crap” on the lawn

Source: Michigan’s roads have turned to crap. So has a strike among road builders. | Bridge Magazine