Local 157 blogspot

Starting next week local157blogspot will run a four part weekly series on the events that led up to the scandal and trusteeship of Local 157...

By KEN BELSON and FERNANDA SANTOS --The New York Times The construction of several large buildings in Manhattan is likely to be delayed fo...

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS and ADAM NICHOLS City officials are gambling with safety by failing to hire experienced crane inspectors,...

The International Herald Tribune NEW YORK: It has become the signature image of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's transformation of the economi...

By RUSS BUETTNER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The New York Times The Manhattan district attorney’s office has opened a criminal investigation in...

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By FERNANDA SANTOS The Bloomberg administration announced on Sunday that the city would hire 63 more inspectors to enforce safety rules at c...

Here's something interesting, this is an overview of the May 7th, Local 157 meeting that was posted on the Official Local 157 website. T...

BY STEPHANIE GASKELL DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Minor violations are shutting down construction sites and costing contractors mi...

Reaction of Local 157 members after the May 7, 2008 meeting, where UBC VP Frank Spencer gaveled the meeting closed without taking questions ...

In a huge member turn out, hundreds of union brothers and sisters left the first Local 157 meeting since the trusteeship imposed on November...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-- MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK PROSCIA –...

NEW YORK - Newsweek is moving from midtown to downtown Manhattan . The magazine has signed a lease for 163,000 square feet at 395 Hudson St....

BY JOTHAM SEDERSTROM DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Building One (foreground) replaces Miss Brooklyn in Atlantic Yards development. Click image to...

Connecticut Laborers’ District Council To Protest This Monday Morning Against New England Carpenters’ Agreement With Associated General Cont...

by Silence Dogood The question of rank and file member’s success with a web site or blog that “Rocks the Boat” so to speak has been answer...

By Janet Whitman, Financial Post UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK - The United Nations is finally breaking ground for a massive overhaul of its dila...

BY RACHEL MONAHAN and ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS WRITERS Developer Bruce Ratner unveiled Sunday a new timetable for the sprawling Atlant...

By ROBIN FINN The New York Times IS that much-heralded, and some cynics might say sadly belated, crane safety seminar (don’t even try leavi...

AP--The city on Wednesday lifted a stop-work order at a condemned skyscraper across from ground zero that had been in effect since a fire th...