Employees at one of Long Island’s largest residential fence companies, Rose Fence, are now represented by Teamsters Local 553 in New York. A large majority of the 70-member workforce voted in favor of Teamster representation on Sunday, May 23, 2010.

“Some Rose Fence employees contacted our local union about a month ago,” said Demo Demopoulos, president of Teamsters Local 553. “They had seen our name on the internet when they did a Google search for unions in the area. We had just organized the horse carriage drivers in New York which has gotten us a lot of publicity, too.”

The Rose Fence employees work as drivers, installers and helpers. They had never been represented by a union before, but recently the company cut their health care. The workers wanted the protection of a union and someone to fight to get their health care benefits back.

The new Local 553 members will be part of the Building Material and Construction Trade Division.

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