Workers Stage Walkout at World Trade Center Site

[The Straight Story]

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.

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.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/08/01/world-trade-center-site-union-workers-stage-walkout/?mod=e2tw

[FreakinDJ]

1. This could get ugly

when the buses from Texas arrive

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If workers walk out and construction pauses/ceases, then the project

can't be completed by 9/11/2012. Does that make the workers "terrorists"?

[patrick t. cakes]

3. We need a national strike

[whathehell]

4. Good for them..It's time to play hardball with the mofos. n/t

[Brickbat]

5. Excellent. This is how you get shit done.

K&R for solidarity.

[jwirr]

6. Go Union.