Rain Date for Rally at Pace

If the weather prevents the Pace Rally today (9/12/13) the rain date will be tomorrow (9/13/13)

Rally at Pace Tomorrow!

Carpenters Wield Mighty Hammer; TIAA-CREF Raises 'White Flag'

Queens, New York - After months of relentless pressure from the New York City District Council of Carpenters and its allies, the world’s second-largest pension fund has decided to sell its interests in a building “sweatshop” located at 5-11 47th Avenue in Long Island City to its former development partner for almost  $22 million.

TIAA-CREF’s decision to divest itself from the 12-story, 181-unit Queens development now under construction without the benefit of unionized workers, could signal a significant win for organized labor as the pension fund rethinks the way it approaches new development projects into the future.

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NYCDCC Supports FHA Firedoor Workers

FHA Firedoor has filed with the NLRB to become non-union. This is because they are a year behind in benefits and despite deducting union dues from their employees paychecks, they have yet to remit the collected money to the Local for a year as well. There will be an election on Friday June 8th for workers of the shop to decide whether they want to stay in the UBC or become non-union workers. The District Council Representatives from our local, Walter Clayton, Andrew Mucaria, and Robert Villalta were at the shop recently to rally the workers to stay union.