Asbestos union stages protest at Edgewood Country Club
Since late April, the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborers’ Local 78 has been disrupting country clubs in and around New Jersey and New York to force the clubs to unionize their groundskeepers. Union protestors first struck the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus in April, planting a coffin with a mannequin and later a 12-foot inflatable rat. Recently, they launched a protest at the Edgewood Country Club in River Vale, complete with coffin and rat. Club officials at each course denied the allegations that they are rich white people who are exploiting minority workers for low pay.
This month, the Ridgewood Country Club will host the first leg in a series of PGA tournaments for the FedEx Cup with a top prize is $10 million. Country club officials are concerned that the protests will hurt attendance at the prestigious event. The tournament traditionally draws hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity.
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