Summary
The inflated rat, long the sign of the trades' displeasure with a nonunion construction site, hasn't seen much air time on Long Island lately.
Part of that is an obvious reflection of the struggling economy, which has brought construction to a near standstill over the past year. Construction employment dropped 8 percent on Long Island last year, and local builders shed another 4,300 jobs in January. Although the numbers aren't all in, February likely wasn't any brighter.See the full content of this document
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Rise of the Trades On Long Island
But nonunion contractors also complain they are being shut out of the few available projects by something else - new laws that essentially force developers to use union workers, despite the higher cost and the fact that nonunion workers outnumber their union counterparts by three to one.
Companies involved in public construction projects have long been required to pay their workers what are called "prevailing" or union- scale wages. In the...See the full content of this document
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