Local 157 blogspot

EDITORIAL: Labor Day is generally regarded as simply a day off - the end of the summer, a day to rest, a time to shop. For most, it presen...

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE New York City’s Labor Day parade has a grand, but in recent years fading, tradition, so for this year’s para...

New York August 26, 2008 -- New York-based developer Time Equities, Inc. hosted a groundbreaking event June 23, 2008 to celebrate Lower Manh...

By DAVID W. DUNLAP With all the talk about what has not been built around ground zero, little attention is paid to what has: a 43-story inve...

-By Warner Todd Huston Members of the carpenters union in New York City have ruined any chance that authorities there will take their union...

WASHINGTON, Aug 20, 2008 -- Leaders from throughout the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners today unanimously endorsed...

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Citing continued corruption, a federal judge has ordered a one-year extension of g...

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Here it is for your reading pleasure; members have been emailing me requesting that I post the On Par lawsuit. Click here for PDF file. On P...

By JOHN ELIGON Two officials of a construction company that did work for the city were charged on Wednesday with cheating workers out of mor...

By PETER KIEFER , Staff Reporter of the Sun Constructing a square foot of office space in New York City costs almost three times as much as...

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As expected UBC VP and Trusteeship supervisor Frank Spencer refused to answer any questions from the membership regarding the Trusteeship of...

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Two hundred and eighty-four construction workers in the Bronx will receive a total of $1.23 million in back pay as part...

By PETER KIEFER , Staff Reporter of the Sun The use of nonunion labor for the construction of "affordable" housing could serve as ...

NEW YORK—The owners of a drywall contracting business have each been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the...

July 2008 Delegate Meeting Minutes

Dirty Tricks Scandal at Local 157 – Part Four With all the controversy continuing to swirl around the Trusteeship of Local 157, an import...

Heard on the Street… Lawrence D’Errico who is running for president of local 157 is expected to name business agent Danny Demorato as his vi...