A Franklin County judge has told the ownership company of a Fleming County apartment complex to halt any efforts to evict members of a tenant union there over placing pro-union signage in apartment windows.
Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd issued a temporary restraining order on Sept. 21 against Ridgeway Park Owner LLC, the company that owns Ridgeway Park Apartments in the Fleming County seat of Flemingsburg. That company is a part of a web of companies associated with Texas-based company OSPM LLC.
The tenant union at the Ridgeway Park Apartments is one of several tenant unions at properties associated with Texas-based property management company OSPM LLC. The statewide group Kentucky Tenant Union helped organize and support those tenant unions; Kentucky Tenant Union announced earlier this year that those tenant unions won a collectively bargained lease with OSPM LLC, the group calling it the first of its kind in the U.S. South…