NEW YORK, June 30 (UPI) -- Seven New York construction workers face disorderly conduct charges after a run-in on a Manhattan picket line.
A brawl broke out at the site on Eighth Avenue on the Upper West Side after a cement mixer knocked over one of the protesters picketing the non-union construction job.
"I was standing on the corner and saw a cement mixer back into a group of men," Sherrie Gibney-Sherman, a visitor from of Georgia, told the New York Post. "I don't think he meant to do it, but one of the men fell right to the ground. He was scratched up, but luckily he didn't get run over."
Accident or not, fists flew and about 50 police officers rushed to the scent to break it up. The arrested included union and non-union workers.
Union officials told the newspaper the managers of the project were sacrificing safety in the interest of saving a few bucks on payroll.
