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Attention NYC Construction Companies! Learn more and help keep building in NYC open and competitive! Download, print and share the flyer!
Attention NYC Construction Workers! Fight for fairness! Fight for your right to work! Download, print and share the flyer!
Much of the NYC construction industry is under siege by forces that cling to old patterns of behavior. These forces seek to undermine tens of thousands of minority workers doing the majority of the building in NYC and employing the greatest number of New Yorkers, especially minorities, thereby creating a diverse workforce who for the first time has significant opportunity for stability and longevity. These workers come from New York communities where unemployment exceeds the national average, thousands of whom are minorities who have been historically ignored by stakeholders wedded to an outmoded method of doing business.
This vibrant construction sector has been responsible for an upsurge in affordable housing development that has begun to address what the City sees as the most crucial public policy issue that we face in New York. This could not have happened under the old and discredited business model, whose proponents are now understandably lashing out in fear and anger as their market share continues to evaporate.
BuildingNYC is an association that represents the merit shops that are doing the majority of the building in NYC today, especially affordable housing. Comprised of workers across all sectors of the NYC construction industry, we seek to protect and advocate for the right to work in a safe, fair and equitable environment that promotes continued growth and success.
Building NYC is proud to partner with Associated Builders and Contractors.
ABC is a recognized leader in skills training and apprenticeships for workers in the construction trades employed by merit based contractors and sub-contractors. ABC delivers programs that equip craft professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to improve their productivity and safety and advance their careers. ABC also offers the kind of apprenticeship programs that meet federal and state requirements for registered apprenticeship and prevailing wage work, including employer sponsored classroom instruction and on-the-job learning. Craft professionals who successfully complete a program are recognized at the journeyperson level and awarded a license.
The purpose of the collaboration is to enable the workers that are part of the BNYC company membership base to raise their skill levels so that they can not only have a safer work environment, but can also advance in their chosen profession and establish the foundation for a lifelong, well paying job and career.
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.
New York City Construction Workers! Help us build with true diversity, safety and fairness.
Join our movement and show your support. We’ll keep you updated on important events and initiatives and training programs!
The Real Story About Building in NYC is Being Written Every Day:
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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