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46-Year-Old Military Vet Launches Union Steamfitting Career Through Helmets...
Photo credit: Anthony Delmundo/New York Daily News Ahead of Veterans Day, the New York Daily News published a piece about the Helmets to Hardhats program, focusing on Steamfitters Local 638. The...
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NY Gov Cuomo Encourages Underpaid Superstorm Sandy Cleanup Workers to File...
Speaking at an event at Stony Brook University, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo urged workers who believe they were underpaid for Superstorn Sandy cleanup work to contact the Labor Department....
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Lobbying Supergroup Launching PR Campaign Against NY Scaffold Law, Worker Safety
Our team of experts is working hard to determine what in the Sam Hell this b.s. slogan even means. The New York Scaffold Law, in place since 1885, protects workers in cases of construction falls. But...
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Prevailing Wage Settlement Long Overdue in Hurricane Sandy Clean Up Case,...
Looks Great Services, a Long Island contractor hired to help clean up downed trees after Hurricane Sandy, has reached a settlement with 16 workers it did not pay the prevailing wage. The workers...
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Upstate NY Town Votes to Require Apprenticeship Programs on Large-Scale Project
The town of Hamburg, NY will begin to require contractors bidding on jobs over $300,000 to have a state approved apprenticeship program following a 2-1 vote by the town board on Monday. Hamburg,...
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NY AG Cracks Whip on Another Unscrupulous Contractor, $115,000 in Back Wages...
The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced the guilty pleas of Universal Steel Fabricators, Inc. and its owners on charges they failed to pay the prevailing wage on a...
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NY in 2013: 127K Misclassified Workers, $62M in Back Wages, $55M in Missing...
In 2013, the state Department of Labor conducted 13,000 audits and investigations finding 127,000 workers had been misclassified. The report found that their employers collectively owed over $55...
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100,000 Sign Petition to Reinstate Fired UPS Workers; Teamsters Rally at City...
Teamsters rally at City Hall following firings they allege are unlawful As part of their plan to eventually fire all 250 Queens, NY drivers who participated in a 90-minute work stoppage, UPS let 17...
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Avenged Scaffold: Institutes Hurl Freedom of Information Requests in NY...
Firfefighters respond to a collapsed scaffold which resulted in death in 2009 The validity of a study which is being used as evidence of the need for reforming New York’s 129-year old scaffold law is...
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NY Development Sets Tough Local Hiring, Sustainability Standards Under...
Rendering via The Daily Freeman Developers of the new project at the former site of the Williams Lake Hotel near Rosendale, NY have announced a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) which aims to hire 50 to...
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NY Building Trades Leader: Insurance Co.’s to Blame for Many Scaffold Law...
The president of the New York State Building & Construction Trades Council, James Cahill, is calling out state leaders in Albany who seek to dismantle worker-protective scaffolding laws. Noting...
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Investigation Finds MTA Contractor Underpaid Security Workers, $1.3M...
After an investigation by the office of New York City comptroller Scott Stringer, security workers for AlliedBarton Security Services who were contracted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)...
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The Rigged Apple: Task Force Finds 133,000 New York Workers Were...
NY Attorney General Schneiderman In its first report, a newly created task force to combat employee misclassification in the state of New York revealed a successful year of winning back unpaid wages...
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NYC Construction Union Diversity Stacks Up to Rest of City, Other Industries
Union-affiliated BuildUp NYC workers gather in NYC. Following a blog post on Crain’s New York titled “Blacks missing out on construction jobs,” the city’s unions responded noting that union...
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A Vote for Precedent: Supervisor Charged with Homicide in NYC Construction...
Wilmer Cueva, the excavation supervisor overseeing the New York City construction site where a young worker was crushed to death last year, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide. The...
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