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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|

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|

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|

More Affordable Housing Falls Victim to Labor’s Self Interest

450 affordable apartments-part of the larger Astoria Cove development in Queens, have fallen victim to the narrow self interest of organized labor:

July 18th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Union Pay|

Construction Unions to New Yorkers: Pay Us or Stay Homeless

The play by the construction unions is a classic knock of the old wolf in sheep's clothing fable-hiding their rapaciousness behind the cloak of affordable housing even as they must know that paying their demand for “prevailing wages” will make it almost impossible to come anywhere near the mayor’s ambitious housing goals.

July 6th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects, Union Pay|

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 Mayor de Blasio’s Zoning Legislation

Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging the state legislature to change the law to permit the city to promote larger residential buildings that would pave the way for more affordable housing in the city

June 10th, 2016|Categories: Better Building, Latest News, Non-Union Projects|

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|