Worcester carpenters’ union to hold Front Street rally
Posted OnApril 23, 2017 byWORCESTER — A rally protesting a subcontractor allegedly paying below area wages and benefits will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday outside 145 Front St., where construction of a rental housing complex is underway. In an announcement about the rally, Carpenters Local 107 of Worcester said that subcontractor P&B Partitions of West Berlin, New…Read More…
OSHA investigates New Square construction fall
Posted OnMarch 27, 2017 byA construction worker was transported to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla on Friday after he fell from the second-floor of a work site in the Village of New Square.Read More…
Picatinny Arsenal employee charged with conspiracy to defraud U.S., bribery
Posted OnMarch 23, 2017 byA Stroudsburg, Pa., man working for the U.S. Army at Picatinny Arsenal has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the country and accepting bribes for allegedly asking for and accepting bribes for government and personal work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.Read More…
Building ‘in the shadows’: N.J. trade unions hope to reinvigorate discussion on regulating underground construction economy
Posted OnMarch 6, 2017 byThe way Bill Sproule sees it, there are no winners in New Jersey’s underground construction economy.Read More…
N.J. company named among worst for wage theft fined $3.2 million
Posted OnFebruary 14, 2017 byThe New York City Comptroller levied a huge fine on a Parsippany company that cheated dozens of workers, mostly immigrant laborers, out of millions of dollars in wages for work on city projects. K.S. Contracting, owned by Paresh Shah, was ordered to pay $3.2 million and will also be barred from receiving state contracts for…Read More…
Parsippany contractor fined $3.2M for underpaying immigrant labor
Posted OnFebruary 14, 2017 byNew York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer on Tuesday assessed $3.2 million in fines against a Parsippany-based contractor for cheating dozens of workers out of the prevailing wages and benefits they were owed under the New York State Labor Law.Read More…
Charged Developer Also Built Crystal Run Projects
Posted OnFebruary 13, 2017 byThe developer for two projects in the Hudson Valley that the Cuomo administration awarded $25 million – even though they were already being built – was Columbia Development, the Albany-based firm whose principal is facing a state bid-rigging charge in a unrelated matter.Read More…
More people needed in the skilled trades, experts say
Posted OnFebruary 13, 2017 byNot enough workers are going into the building trades, and that could place a speed bump on economic development effort in the Mohawk Valley, experts say. “It’s hard to find a young man that wants to go into the trades. Or a woman,” said Bobby Catrombone, owner of RFC Contracting Inc. in Utica.Read More…
LPCiminelli Claims Bid-Rigging Case Has Cost Company Billions
Posted OnFebruary 8, 2017 byAn attorney for fomer LPCiminelli CEO Louis Ciminelli claimed the Buffalo-based development company has lost $3.88 billion dollars worth of inventory and work because of the company’s alleged involvement in a bid-rigging scheme. According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, about 21 contracts were lost or…Read More…
Politicians call for more apprenticeships to fill need for skilled labor
Posted OnFebruary 6, 2017 byNew Jersey’s federal and state politicians are proposing plans to expand apprenticeship programs, through public-private partnership funding, in order to fill skilled labor jobs that remain vacant in the U.S. Though there are roughly 10 million unemployed individuals in the country, 4 million jobs exist in manufacturing and other skilled labor jobs, according to U.S….Read More…