Sentences with phrase «by construction unions»

Mr. de Blasio's plan is indeed opposed by some construction unions, who want the mayor to require higher wages in return for tax breaks.

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Closed - shop rules imposed by the carpenters» union dictate public tendering policies, and so most future municipal construction contracts can only be bid by approved union firms, dramatically reducing the number of eligible bidders.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

But a majority of Americans, Republican lawmakers and construction union members welcomed the prospect of boosting reliance on a firm U.S. ally for new supplies of the heavy crude, which would be shipped by a pipeline built largely in this country and processed at Gulf Coast refineries uniquely capable of dealing with the low - grade oil.

May 28 (NY Post)-- The ironworkers» union — desperate to regain market share from surging nonunion construction — has agreed to an unprecedented 15 % overall compensation cut that could slash total project costs by up to 25 %.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

The number of independent contractors in Australia has fallen in recent years — 1.11 million contractors in 2010 to 986,000 by 2013 — which the Abbott government has blamed on a «concerted attack» by the Tax Office and the Fair Work building and construction taskforce under the previous Labor government to push people into more union - friendly arrangements.

The Appeal against the Full Federal Court decision Director, Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate v Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2015] FCAFC 59 was heard by the full bench of the High Court yesterday.

The High Court had granted the Commonwealth of Australia special leave to appeal the decision in Director, Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate v Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2015] FCAFC 59 (1 May 2015), in which the Full Federal Court concluded that they should not have any regard to the figures agreed by the parties in relation to penalties.

MPs are calling on Vince Cable to agree a full - scale probe into blacklisting in the construction industry, following allegations by the Unite union.

Crain's New York editorial by BP Adams urging construction unions to expand diversity initiatives.

The ultimatum handed down by Cuomo and the legislature on the prevailing wage issue in June 2015 — which put developers and construction unions in the position of having to agree on an extremely contentious issue — has been painted by some observers as doomed from the start.

A union group accused of ballooning construction costs by paying «coffee boys» a whopping $ 42 an hour is now allegedly slashing tires and using «thuggish tactics of yesteryear» at the...

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The ad by the Real Estate Board of New York is, in part, a response to an ad from construction trade unions, who say a prevailing wage is about fairness.

State Senator Tim Kennedy says he was told by a local union Friday afternoon that they were asked to lay off 144 employees at the SolarCity construction site in Buffalo.

The union cited the push by the Cuomo administration on a variety of major construction projects, including a refurbished LaGuardia Airport and JFK International Airport, spending on airports in upstate cities like Syracuse and Rochester as well as renovations at the state fairgrounds.

The false weapon of community backing, shamelessly exploited by LILCO and its Wall Street and nuclear industry buddies, and the lobbyists, banks, insurance companies and the powerful construction trade unions, was dramatically snatched right out of their hands.

The governor has said de Blasio waited too long into the legislative session to present his proposals, and he has criticized the mayor for excluding a required prevailing wage for construction workers involved in 421 - a development, a stance that has been praised by the trades unions.

According to the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC), an organization consisting of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions representing 100,000 members in New York City, project labor agreements (PLAs) with these terms for four projects valued at $ 345 million are in the process of being executed by unions in the industry.

It does not include a provision sought by some unions to pay a prevailing wage to construction workers, which drew a rebuke from the state's AFL - CIO and allowed Cuomo, normally a centrist Democrat, to attack de Blasio from the left.

De Blasio has angered the construction trades unions by refusing to require a prevailing wage.

Construction labor unions, meanwhile, were buoyed by Cuomo's support for reviving the 421a tax abatement by using a subsidy to pay for a prevailing wage component.

Minorities made up 11 percent of the local construction unions in 2012, according to a census conducted by LPCiminelli as part of the Buffalo schools reconstruction project; that census does not provide a more detailed breakdown by racial group.

The 421a abatement — the sine qua non of Mr. de Blasio's proposal to construct 60,000 new below - market apartments — expired in January after an ill - fated decision by Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders to have the real estate industry and unions negotiateinclude new prevailing wage requirements for construction workers.

By Sean Ryan Construction unions hungry for jobs a proposed Kenosha casino would create joined the call for a federal investigation into the Bureau of Indian Affairs» denial of the project.

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NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, joined by Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James Rubin, today announced the arrest and indictment of landlord Daniel Melamed by the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force («Task Force»), on charges that Melamed endangered the health and safety of rent regulated tenants, including a six year old child, during demolition and construction that began in February 2014 at his 14 - unit building at 1578 Union Street in Brooklyn.

Construction unions and developers were unable to come to an accord on prevailing wage standards to be written into the 421a tax exemption by today's deadline — meaning the abatement will die on the vine, and the future of the New York real estate market will be left uncertain.

The construction industry has criticized recent safety bills by City Hall as a giveaway to the city's trade unions, who can set up and provide the training.

By Paul Snyder Madison - area construction unions are lining up behind Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's push to renovate the city's central library.

The mayor also has upset unions by not including a mandated prevailing wage for construction workers in the proposal.

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

In the latest lawsuit, Related alleges that the unions prevented a union concrete supplier, Ferrara Brothers, from making deliveries to the 3 - million - square - foot 50 Hudson Yards high - rise project under construction, in part by slashing tires.

Dismayed by their declining dominance, the city's construction unions have sought to require any projects with government tax breaks or other subsidies be built by companies paying «middle class,» or union wages.

In March, a subsidiary of Related Companies filed a lawsuit against Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and its president, Gary LaBarbera, alleging that the union's labor policies drove up costs at Hudson Yards by more than $ 100 million.

Most of the construction efforts were by local contractors and local union workers.

There was also a guarantee to use union construction workers and to spend several million dollars more on community benefits — concessions won by Rose.

The clock will continue to tick on the roughly seven - month timeline that requires approval by the City Planning Commission and the City Council before any demolition or construction can take place in Union Square.

Funded by the European Union, and led by Mat Santamouris, there are already four «zero - plus» settlements under construction in four European countries!

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

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Created as an opportunity to introduce her family, friends and colleagues to The Cooper Union, the event drew more than 150 guests who enjoyed cocktails in 41 Cooper Gallery and tours throughout the building led by students, faculty members and project managers from the F.J. Sciame Construction team.

In that same year the Independent Self - governing Trade Union «Solidarity» donated the collection of works created by the participants of an international action Construction in Process to be a permanent deposit of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.

For her focus she chose Union Square which by the late»20s, with the construction of the subway, had become not only a main transportation

With the Obama Administration willing to sacrifice jobs and economic development for some perceived environmental legacy, it is time for unions to abandon the historic allegiance to the Democrat Party and realize that it is the Republicans who advocate for policies that protect the jobs in construction, manufacturing, mining, and energy — all well - paying positions that are often filled by union members.

It is by now well - known (for an analysis on this blog see here) that, according to the CJEU, harmonised European standards, though adopted by private standardisation bodies, are to be assimilated to acts of the EU institutions (James Elliott Construction, para 34), all the more since references to such standards have been published by the Commission in the «C» series of the Official Journal of the European Union (James Elliott Construction, para 40).

Today Ta'ah Amy George, (Tsleil - Waututh Nation elder), Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, (President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, which represents more than half of Nations in B.C.), Chief Judy Wilson (Neskonlith First Nation in Secwepemc territory), and Chief Bob Chamberlin (Kwikwasut» inuxw Haxwa» mis First Nation) were joined by hundreds of others — including author Naomi Klein — in a full - day blockade at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby construction site.