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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|

Handwriting on the Wall for Construction Unions in NYC

Construction unions are reaching a serious crossroads in New York. For years, utilizing political muscle and other forms of intimidation, they dominated building in the city-squashing non-union efforts easily like a bug. But then things began to change as the death grip of organized labor was slowly removed and contractors began to see how costly and inefficient the building trades had become.

June 24th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Corruption, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety, Union Pay|

BNYC Supports Brooklyn Borough President on Construction Union Diversity

In today’s Crain’s, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams highlights the fact that the construction unions that are loudly demanding that affordable housing developments hire their own members at a high prevailing wage scale, “…lack the rich diversity found in the communities around them.”

Crain’s New York Business 5/29/2016

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June 1st, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety|

Is Cuomo the new Boss Tweed?

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it clear that he cares more about political connections than empowering workers in New York. This should be deeply concerning for taxpayers and for those who want to create more middle-class jobs throughout the state.

May 4th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Corruption, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Union Pay|

Observer: Amid Spike in Deaths and Spat With Labor, Nonunion Builders Launch Training Program

BuildingNYC, a coalition of 12 “merit-based” developers and contractors, is partnering with the Associated Builders and Contractors, a national federation of nonunion companies whose members provide training in the trades.

February 29th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety|

Crain’s: What killed 421-a? Old-fashioned protectionism

Key program to produce affordable housing is losing out to myopic and selfish pleading by organized labor

NYP: NY construction unions make it hard for minorities to move up

When Averil Morrison sued the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14-B for racial discrimination back in 2012, she confirmed what we’ve known for decades: New York City union construction is no standard-bearer for workplace diversity.

Introducing BuildingNYC!

BuildingNYC is an association that represents those workers doing the majority of the building in NYC today, especially affordable housing. Comprised of a diverse workforce from 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 job growth and economic success.

December 21st, 2015|Categories: Better Building, Diversity, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Site Safety, Union Pay|

NYT: New York Sheet Metal Workers Case Highlights Persistence of Workplace Discrimination

The union’s white members have received more work and larger pensions, data show. In contrast, minority members, who have lagged for decades, often struggle to find steady jobs and to earn enough credit to retire on time with full pensions.

December 21st, 2015|Categories: Diversity, Latest News, Union Pay|

POLITICO: Minority workers sue operating engineers union

Minority workers have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14 and several other construction groups alleging they have systematically discriminated against men and women of color in the hiring and employment of operating engineers.