Brief: BTOP wins round in court

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Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1998 | 2:32 a.m.

The judge ruled that a previously obtained court order was not violated because pickets blocked entrance to Precision offices and not entrances to job sites as prohibited in the order.

The injunction was expanded to include the office entrances, said Precision attorney Greg Smith. Last month, Gibbons found the unions in contempt for trespassing on job sites and obstructing the entrance to a job site.

Precision has been targeted for union organization by the concrete workers union and BTOP. Several sit-down strikes and other actions at sites where Precision was working led the company to obtain an injunction governing pickets set up by the unions. Kukurin Concrete and Lewis Homes have obtained similar orders.

In another matter Monday, Gibbons transformed a temporary restraining order granted to Pete White Corp. into an injunction. The order is similar to others that bar strikers from trespassing on job sites and employees' property and that prohibits obstructing entrances to job sites.