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Show lUozhe? Mssatisfadion leaches Soiling Point by Max Jarman Worker dissatisfaction at the Park West construction site came to a head again Friday afternoon when a worker allegedly slugged carpentry foreman Don Wilcox Wil-cox in a pay dispute. Workers Work-ers shut down the job after lunch when they refused to return to work without guarantee guar-antee that they would receive full pay for their labor. Two police cars soon arrived ar-rived on the scene to make sure there would be no further furth-er incidents of fighting or other -trouble. ., A foreman at Park West said that any worker who showed up ready to work Park West Inc., was in danger dang-er of losing its financial backing. Piece workers, who are paid only once every two weeks, demanded that Park West post a bond guaranteeing guarantee-ing payment for their labor. The company refused to do this. A Park West foreman said he couldn't understand why the workers are so dissatisfied. dissatis-fied. "They're doing the same work now," he said, "but they're working for a better company." One worker, work-er, who said he was considering con-sidering putting a lien on the job, disagreed. 'I don't see why I should do charity work for Park West," he said. Workers have also complained com-plained they were not being paid in full for the overtime hours they had worked. After a representative of the labor board came to the jobFriday, the company announced that no one would be allowed to work more than forty hours in a week. If the company fulfills its promise and fully pays the workers on Friday, the job is likely to return to normal. If not, there is almost certain cer-tain to be more trouble at Park West. Monday morning would still have a job. However, most of the piece workers and several sev-eral of the hourly men said they were leaving the job for good on Friday. Some of the piece workers claimed they were fired. Craig Knight, job supervisor super-visor at Park West, said, 'Some of the men wanted to be paid in full. We paid them and that was the end of the job." He refused comment on whether or not the men were fired. Witnesses at the scene said the worker hit Wilcox when the foreman refused to say when he would be paid. Wilcox received minor cuts on his nose and chin in the scuffle, which was broken up almost immediately. Both men say they have now reconciled re-conciled their differences, and no charges were filed. Trouble has been brewing at Park West ever since paychecks from Van Dyke Construction, the carpentry carpen-try subcontractor, began bouncing July 12. Some workers work-ers soon found themselves overdrawn when July 5 paychecks, pay-checks, which they had deposited de-posited in checking accounts also bounced. Ski Park West Inc., which took over the job from Van Dyke, has paid some, but not all the money due the workers. work-ers. Knight promised that employees would be paid in full this Friday. However, some workers said they were suspicious of this promise because of rumors that Ski |