Benefits Dispute Leads To Pipeline Construction Walk-off

January 4, 2012 | 1:02 PM

A couple hundred union workers are walking off their pipeline construction jobs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, due to a contract dispute.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 700 Teamster pipeline construction workers are walking off their jobs after negotiations broke down with the Pipe Line Contractors Association over proposals to change their retirement programs.
That total will include about 200 workers in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to Galen Munroe, a Teamsters spokesman from Washington, D.C. Their contract expired on Dec. 31.
Most of those local workers have jobs related to drilling and transporting pipelines to Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale natural gas reserve drilling sites.