15% OF NYC ELECTRICIANS TO BE FURLOUGHED [laid off]
• Furlough period is 10 weeks to begin 1/1/2007, with a requirement that each employee’s first furlough period must be at least six consecutive weeks.
• Over a four week period beginning 1/2/2007, each employer with ten or more “A” journeypersons will furlough 15% of their total “A” journeypersons and replace them with an unemployed journeyperson.
Nets' Future Brooklyn Home To Be Called Barclays Arena
The Nets and Forest City Ratner Companies announced Thursday that London-based Barclays Bank has agreed to a deal for the naming rights of the planned arena in the Atlantic Yards project for Downtown Brooklyn.
Two contractors have been indicted for participating in an 11-year scheme to defraud the carpenters union benefit funds by using non-union labor, paying union carpenters off the books and bribing shop stewards and an employee of the union benefit funds to assist in the fraud!
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR’S REPORT ON
UNREPORTED AND OTHER "CASH" PAYMENTS TO CARPENTERS
BY TRI-BUILT CONSTRUCTION, INC
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR’S REPORT ON
UNREPORTED AND OTHER "CASH" PAYMENTS TO CARPENTERS
BY BOOM CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES, INC
About 1 in 5 union organizers or activists can expect to be fired as a result of their union organizing, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The paper, “Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns,” by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer, finds a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in recent years.