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Crain’s New York: Making Construction Safer In The City Requires Investment, Not Organized Labor
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Read MoreNonunion Group Calls on State to Investigate Why Verrazano Bridge Worker Wasn’t Wearing a Safety Harness
A nonunion construction group is calling on the state to investigate why a worker who fell from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge earlier this week wasn’t in a safety harness. The Associated Builders Contractors sent a letter to the state’s Department of Transportation urging the agency to investigate why the worker wasn’t “tied off” when he fell…
Read MoreABC Comments On Burdensome EPA Regulations
On May 15, ABC submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on costly and burdensome EPA regulations and policies. In the comment letter, ABC expressed concern that major federal projects have been unnecessarily delayed or abandoned, resulting in jobs being deferred or never created because of a dysfunctional permitting system. ABC supports a streamlined process…
Read MoreBipartisan, ABC-Supported Career and Technical Education Bill Introduced in Congress
The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, was introduced in the Committee on Education and the Workforce by Reps. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) on May 4. The ABC-supported legislation would provide more access to valuable career and technical education (CTE) programs and ensure these programs are aligned…
Read MoreOsha Rescinds “Union Walk Around Rule”
On April 25, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a memorandum withdrawing a letter of interpretation that stated nonunion employees can authorize an individual “affiliated with a union or a community organization” to act as their representative during agency-sanctioned inspections and other enforcement situations. The 2013 letter of interpretation was written by OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary…
Read MoreABC National Chair Calls on Congress to End Government Mandated Project Labor Agreements
2017 ABC National Chair Chuck Goodrich’s op-ed calling on Congress to pass the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1552/S. 622) was published in The Hill on April 10. This ABC-priority legislation would allow America’s entire construction workforce—including the 86 percent of the private construction workforce that has chosen not to join a labor union—to compete on a level…
Read MoreA Wisconsin Lesson for Trump the Builder
‘Project labor agreements’ drive up costs on public-works projects. Ben Brubeck April 16, 2017 2:14 p.m. ET President Trump may be a famous builder, but he could learn something about infrastructure from Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and Iowa’s Terry Branstad. On Monday, Gov. Walker is expected to sign a law prohibiting state agencies and local governments…
Read MoreDOB Investigating Fatal Crane Accident on Union Site
Death occurred in Staten Island last month April 04, 2017 10:15AM The city’s Department of Buildings is investigating a crane accident that killed a construction worker on a union site in Staten Island last month. Antonio Veloso, 54, was struck and killed by a load that fell off a crane at 356 Meredith Avenue on…
Read MoreCity Investigating Crane Accident that Killed Construction Worker
The Buildings Department is investigating a March 10 crane accident on Staten Island that resulted in the death of a worker at a union construction site. Antonio Veloso, a 54-year-old Portuguese immigrant and member of the Laborers International Union Local 1010, was killed at 356 Meredith Ave. after being struck by a load that had…
Read MoreA phony push for construction site safety
When unions can’t compete, they turn to city pols to get an edge, and that seems to be what’s driving a City Council bill adding a new mandate for construction workers. In the name of boosting safety, the bill would force workers to finish an apprenticeship program before working on buildings over nine stories tall.…
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