Yearly Archives: 2016

/2016

BNYC Calls for Action to Address NYC’s Affordable Housing Crisis

Building NYC blasts critics of 421-a tax subsidy for developers, saying that they are putting their own special interests above the needs of struggling New Yorkers.

November 7th, 2016|Categories: Latest News, Union Pay|

Crain’s: Labor Leader Given Soapbox on Construction Deaths

The assertions of Gary LaBarbera should not have gone unanswered in a recent Crain's story

September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety|

ABC’s Merit Messenger: Your Critical Thinkers

An aging workforce that's retiring at a rapid pace brings both a shortage in workers and a shortage of thinkers. We need to build our next generation of thinkers.

September 1st, 2016|Categories: ABC Merit Messenger|

Crain’s: Builder’s Powerful & Reasoned Rebuttal to Building Trades’ Lou Coletti

This is what happens when an accusatory climate of vindictiveness is created by a media frenzy: false claims are loudly proclaimed, reputations damaged, and when the truth finally emerges months later, small corrections are buried deep inside a trade paper.

August 11th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety|

BNYC: ‘Good’ contractors should be careful what they wish for

How can an organization cheering the conviction of a construction company be sure its own members won't be targeted by prosecutors?

August 9th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects|

BuildingNYC Announces Training Partnership with Associated Builders and Contractors

BuildingNYC (BNYC), the group of contractors and workers promoting a merit-based construction industry in NYC, is announcing a path breaking partnership with Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national trade association representing nearly 21,000 merit shop contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and related firms across the United States.

August 8th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety|

Criminalization of Construction Accidents Forum August 3rd

Gotham Government Relations & Communications is hosting an informational forum to brief the construction industry on how the conviction this month of a general contractor of severe criminal charges sets a dangerous precedent that could put everyone working in the construction industry, union and nonunion alike, in grave danger, if left unchallenged.

July 28th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Site Safety|

Construction Oversight: Who Will Oversee the Overseers?

BNYC has taken such a strong stand against the criminalization of construction accidents. Adding prosecutorial discretion on top of the discretion that exists in the city’s regulatory regime is a recipe for disaster

July 25th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Corruption, Latest News, Site Safety|

Construction Equipment Guide: The Dangers of Criminalizing Construction Accidents

Construction Equipment Guide posts news on BNYC's editorial by Brad Gertsman published by Crain's New York Business:

July 21st, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety, Union Pay|

Brad Gerstman in Crain’s: The danger of criminalizing construction accidents

The conviction this month of Harco Construction of severe criminal charges sets a dangerous precedent that could put everyone working in the construction industry—union and nonunion alike—in grave danger.

July 20th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Site Safety|