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ABC 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…
A 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…
DOB 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…
City 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…
A 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.…
City Limits: CityViews: Fixing NYCHA Means Scrapping Project-Labor Agreements
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Gov. Cuomo’s Choice: Protect Immigrants or Bow to Unions?
BY BRIAN SAMPSON Gov. Cuomo has sworn to protect New York’s immigrants, no matter what the cost. So why are some of his allies turning them over for deportation? New reporting revealed that construction unions closely tied to the governor are leading an effort to report and deport undocumented immigrants in upstate New York. In…
Building Trades-Backed Report Claims Greater Diversity in Union Construction
This story originally appeared in the Commercial Observer BY REY MASHAYEKHI MARCH 8, 2017 An Economic Policy Institute report, commissioned by New York’s leading construction trade union and released last week, has highlighted employment diversity practices within the union sector of New York City’s construction industry and compared them favorably to the nonunion sector. The report,…
ABC to Gov. Cuomo: Talk with the Experts, Not Just Donors
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 3, 2016 – Leadership of the Associated Builders & Contractors, Empire State Chapter (ABC), called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to visit with merit shop (open shop) leaders while he is in Florida attending the Building & Constructions Trade Council of Greater New York winter conference. “It’s unfortunate that once again Governor Cuomo…
R. Alexander Acosta Nominated to Serve as Secretary of Labor After Puzder Withdraws
On Feb. 15, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, former CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder, withdrew from consideration of the position. Prior to his withdrawal, Puzder was slated to appear before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for a hearing on Thursday Feb. 16. On Feb. 16, President Trump nominated…