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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
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.
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.
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
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:
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.
Crain’s: Crane inventor gives his side of the city’s ban—and backs it up
Over the past month there has been a great deal of press attention to the fate of the Skypicker, the innovative crane I designed to make aspects of construction safer and less expensive.
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.
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
In the process, as we have […]