05/14/2008 - 12:31pm
No one was hurt, but the accident left a big mess behind.
05/11/2008 - 8:15pm
05/06/2008 - 9:36pm
Union leaders had been organizing the rally since learning Beech-Nut awarded a construction contract to Buckner Steel in North Carolina. New York state is providing Beech-Nut with $104.5 million in funding for the project, causing many at the meeting to question the awarding of a contract for the project to an out-of-state company.
"I have been a union member for 25 years, and I have never had a job in my own community,” said Hagaman resident Thomas Graveley, a member of Carpenters 370. “Getting a job like this would mean I wouldn’t have to travel two hours each way to make a living.”
Mark Sowalski of the Empire Regional Council of Carpenters said he was in favor of the project and would love to see it go through provided they use local workers.
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05/06/2008 - 12:56pm
05/06/2008 - 12:52pm
This is part of the Carpenters’ never-ending attempt to fragment the construction building and trades. They are targeting us because we recently joined the AFL-CIO’s Building and Trades last month,” explained Charles LeConche, business manager, Connecticut Laborers’ District Council. “This is a truly a fight for jobs and our families here in Connecticut. If this agreement is followed, over 40 jobs will be lost at the Hartford Insurance project in Windsor, CT and probably more at the UBS construction project in Stamford, CT. By rejecting our compromises, the New England Carpenters are only promoting union discord and higher building and construction costs in the long run”.
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05/03/2008 - 2:13pm
Labor officials say Beech-Nut could receive as much as $106.5 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to help it build its $124 million production plant and headquarters building.
"Where is the local benefit to our community, to the workers and to our taxpayers?" the federation asked in an e-mail alert. "All the corporate grants will not benefit the community until a requirement is developed to promote corporate responsibility to the workers and our community, which produces all these millions of dollars worth of incentives."
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05/02/2008 - 6:16pm
Mark Erlich, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, will provide testimony to a hearing being held by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry Monday, April 28 in Chelsea. The hearing will begin at 10 am at the Chelsea Campus of Bunker Hill Community College, located at 175 Hawthorne Street in Bellingham Square. Senator Kerry is holding the hearing as part of his role as Chair of the United Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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05/02/2008 - 6:04pm
New York Racing Association workers were raising the roof of a barn at the Oklahoma Training Track this morning when the entire barn collapsed.
Saratoga facilities manager Charlie Wheeler said, in a statement, that the weight of the structure shifted, causing the barn to fall onto its side.
One worker, whose identity has not yet been released by authorities, was trapped until rescuers were able to free him from the wreckage. He was put in a back brace, placed on a stretcher and taken by helicopter to Albany Medical Center Hospital to treat a broken arm. The other five carpenters suffered minor scrapes and were treated at the scene.
Workers and security move about around the collapsed barn at the Oklahoma Race Track in Saratoga Springs on Thursday, May 1, 2008. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)
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04/30/2008 - 7:10pm
The authorities said the worker, Christopher Gunn, 28, was trying to maneuver a 20-foot steel I-beam being hoisted into place by a crane about 8:30 a.m. when he slipped and fell from the second story of the building, which is under construction between First Avenue and Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.
What caused him to fall was unclear, but workers said that an early morning drizzle might have made the steel slippery, and that Mr. Gunn was seen grabbing for the I-beam to steady himself.
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04/27/2008 - 4:07pm
“This is an open bidding process and everyone is being encouraged to submit,” Wells said. “We are asking local union companies to submit bids for work.” Feller echoed Wells’ statement in the news release. “It should be noted that this is just the start of the construction of the new Beech-Nut plant and that we are continuing to urge local companies to respond to the various bids that we will be issuing throughout the construction process,” Feller stated in the press release. “This facility and its employees are union employees,” Wells said. “They’ve been union for many years and it will continue that way in Florida.”
