Local 157 blogspot

I received the following postcard in today's mail... Dear Brothers & Sisters, Due to improvements and the efficiencies that are appa...

By THOMAS J. LUECK and COLIN MOYNIHAN Just one day after thousands of workers gathered to mourn the loss of the 13 people killed in constru...

By Michael Daly -- Daily News Just before 2 p.m. Monday, the hands that built New York began filling St. Patrick's Cathedral for a Mass...

By Kirsten Danis She didn't see it coming. Things had not been going well for Patricia Lancaster for weeks - even months - but when the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Only hours after the city announced plans to ratchet up scrutiny of construction dangers, a construction worker was seriousl...

Dear friends of the BCTC and the BTEA, Greetings, April 28 is Workers’ Memorial Day and in light of the terrible tragedy of March 15 in the ...

By CHARLES V. BAGLI Facing a loss of support at City Hall and growing criticism for an increase in construction accidents, Buildings Commiss...

Updated May 8th, 4:10 PM... Finally the Official Local 157 website has some useful information. After being dark since March , the site now...

By KIRSTEN DANIS DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF A big upswing in deadly construction accidents - including a terrifying Midtown crane...

Important Update... To All Local 157 Brothers and Sisters: The scheduled April 21, Local 157 Club Meeting is a GO! Kindly attend a Special...

Who's running things? After almost 2 months of being dark there is no information and still more weird things going on with the Official...

By THOMAS J. LUECK In the decades since steelworkers balanced at dizzying heights over Manhattan with little to prevent them from falling, h...

By RICHARD ANDERSON NY POST For all the economic doom and gloom we've been hearing, private-sector construction has been going gangbuste...

AP--A citywide inspection of construction cranes like the one that killed seven people when it toppled last month found that eight of the 29...

Weird things going on at Local 157. The Official Local 157 website says "Breaking News Next Local 157 Union Meeting Schedule For June ...

More weird things, before being update with the "Breaking News" about the union meeting, the New Redesigned Official Local 157 web...

A construction worker fell to his death from an East Side building on Monday when a safety strap system intended to secure him to the buildi...

From Joe's Union Review Local 237/NYCHA members are stretched to the point of collapse, and residents of public housing – 500,000 citize...

By Alec Appelbaum For New York City, April is the cruelest month. Just one year ago it was poised to embark on $12 billion worth of eye-ca...

SJP Properties today announced the beginning of the steel erection at 11 Times Square, the 1.1 million square foot commercial and retail tow...