Community | August 02, 2011 | 14 comments

Workers Stage Walkout at World Trade Center Site

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Hundreds of unionized concrete workers walked off the job at the World Trade Center on Monday, setting up for a possible strike in the coming days.

The contract covering the workers expired on July 1. Since then, the concrete workers have been operating without a new contract.

Officials with the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council representing the concrete workers declined to comment. Officials with the Cement League, a contractors’ association that represents management, couldn’t be reached for comment Monday. However, a source familiar with the matter said the two parties are currently negotiating.

Without concrete workers, work cannot proceed on part of the World Trade Center’s transit hub, according to a person familiar with the matter. Other construction tradesmen continued work at the site on Monday, but a prolonged work stoppage could affect their work if they need concrete to proceed, according to that same person.

Concrete workers also stopped working at Tower 1, but other construction there will be able to continue for about a week or so, according to another person familiar with the matter.

Monday’s work stoppage by the concrete workers union will have “no impact on construction of the 9/11 Memorial, which remains on track to open on the tenth anniversary [of the attacks], and minimal impacts on the site’s other projects,” said Steve Coleman, a spokesman with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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14 comments // Workers Stage Walkout at World Trade Center Site

  • cmc101
    • +3
      cmc101  

    • Let us take pause to remember those workers that help clean up that terrible mess.
      let us speak about how they were compensated when they got sick.
      let us bare witness to the unjust treatment of the volunteer .
      let us sing about how they took workers life insurance money and gave it to the elite employer's family with our .silence

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • remanns
    • +1
      remanns  

    • Good. +^d ( for the workers )

      (p.s. - not that I think that highly of THAT citie's ability to BUILD ANYTHING anyway ; uhm,......HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN ? How many pictures of this brave new American architectural monument are there ? ! ? )

      THANX a heap NYC,......from ALL of America.
      You help make TEXAS look competent.

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • kvb1
    • 0
      kvb1  
    • remanns:

      The delay in this project is due to insurance companies not wanting to pay and a fight over who owned the property (which is not NYC but the quasi public/private Port Authority of New Tork and New Jersey). The majority of New Yorkers just wanted the towers rebuilt as quickly as possible. But money, and who was going to pay for it got in the way

    • 10 months ago
  • Milieu
    • +3
      Milieu  

    • Let the Union’s Spirit

      A song by Mimi Yahn©Mimi Yahn 1990, 1991
      Tune: "Midnight Special"

      Chorus
      Let the Union's spirit
      Take ahold this land,
      Let the Union's power
      Fill every woman and man.

      Yonder comes my steward,
      Got a grievance in her hand,
      She come to see the boss man;
      You shoulda seen the way he ran.

      Get on board the Union
      Don't be left behind,
      Don't be standing by your lonesome;
      The boss'll get you if he can.

      The devil's got his helper,
      Your back he's always out to stab;
      You know they call this creature
      A low-down union-bustin' scab.

      Don't be fooled by slick words,
      Don't be fooled by corporate cons;
      They'll always try to split us,
      But don't forget which side you're on.

      The comp'ny's greedy for their profits,
      Think they own 'most everything;
      Well, there's one thing that they can't own:
      Union solidarity!

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • cmc101
  • JustZ
  • bailey78
  • letsliveinpeace
  • remanns
  • letsliveinpeace
    • +2
      letsliveinpeace  

    • Workers Stage Walkout at World Trade Center Site, Hundreds of unionized concrete workers walked off the job at the World Trade Center on Monday, setting up for a possible strike in the coming days.

      A recent aerial view of the World Trade Center site.

    • 10 months ago
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