…Trans-Hudson Summit (www.transhudsonsummit.com), described how the region has been able to accommodate and move more people without building out new infrastructure into Manhattan. “Over the last 50 years, we have…
…New Jersey. Dubbed the Trans-Hudson Summit (www.transhudsonsummit.com), officials from Amtrak, the Port Authority and the private sector convened for four sessions to discuss the urgency for a new rail…
May 13, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco Non-union construction sites are more dangerous, according to NYCOSH. New York, NY – This week, New Yorkers learned that Department of Buildings inspectors probing…
…the current site for more money than it would make through the sale of air rights if it were to build a new bus terminal at the current site. With…
…Statistics from both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, clearly indicate that non-union construction sites are much more dangerous than union…
…to have photo identification. Those measures are “morally indefensible and economically insane,” the Rev. William Barber, Moral Mondays’ best-known leader, told LaborPress before an appearance at Stony Brook University on…
…union construction sites have higher fatality rates than non-union sites. Needless to say, union members and labor leaders at the presser, including Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction…
…but it took a vision to come up with this stuff.” City workers defended their newly won pensions in a 1971 strike best remembered for drawbridge operators leaving the bridges…
…City construction site with a special hearing on Monday morning in which Buildings Department officials are expected to face touch questions about why so many construction workers are dying on the…
May 11, 2015 By Kevin Zaph Hanes, Reprinted: www.afscme.org Following months of mounting pressure by AFSCME Council 3 members and allies, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan backed down from a plan…
