Mar 27, 2019   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Labor Unions And Day Laborers Organization Join Forces For Final Budget Push, Urging Legislators To End Corporate Welfare And Pass Public Works

Hundreds of Activists from New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) & Building Trades Unions to Hold Final Day of Action in Support of Passing Legislation to Clearly Define Public Work in The Budget

Policy Will Give Thousands of Construction Workers on Taxpayer-Funded Projects a Raise

WHO: Senator Jessica Ramos
Assembly Member Harry Bronson
Senator Jamaal Bailey
Senator Robert Jackson
Assembly Member Brian Barnwell
Assembly Member Karl Brabanec
Assembly Member William Colton
Assembly Member Michael DenDekker
Assembly Member Deborah Glick
Assembly Member Dick Gottfried
Assembly Member Pamela Hunter
Assembly Member Mike LiPetri
Assembly Member Karines Reyes
Assembly Member Daniel Rosenthal
Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright
Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon
Michael Hellstrom, Assistant Business Manager, Mason Tenders District Council of
Greater New York, LiUNA and Campaign Manager of Count Me In
Manuel Castro, Executive Director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(NICE)
IBEW Local 236
New York State District Council 9, International Union of Painters and Allied
Trades, IUPAT
Teamsters Local 456
Affiliated local unions of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and hundreds of activists and union members

WHAT: Press conference and rally in support of passing legislation to clearly define public work

WHEN: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 12pm

WHERE: New York State Capitol, Million Dollar Staircase

WHY: Continuing the momentum of their campaign to pass legislation closing the public works loophole on publicly subsidized projects and guaranteeing construction workers strong wages, the Laborers union, in conjunction with other Building Trades affiliates, has partnered with New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) for a day of action to urge legislators to pass the measure in the New York State budget. With the clock ticking towards the April 1(st) budget deadline, tomorrow's action will serve to remind the Assembly and Senate of the uplifting impact this wage requirement will have on workers both upstate and down, at all levels of skill in the industry.

The Mason Tenders District Council of Greater New York is the 17,000-member umbrella council, representing five local unions affiliated with the Laborers International Union of North America: General Building Laborers Local 66; Asbestos, Lead & Hazardous Waste Laborers Local 78; Construction & General Laborers Local 79; Waste Material, Recycling & General Industrial Laborers Local 108, and: Lay Faculty Association Local 1261.

The New York State Laborers' Union represents over 40,000 members employed in the construction industry and other fields throughout the state, and organized into more than 24 local unions and 5 district councils.

                        Contact:             Rebecca Lamorte,
                                              646-740-7662


                                             Richard Weiss,
                                              917-560-0046


                                             Tommy Meara,
                                              718-309-3506

/PRNewswire -- March 27, 2019/

SOURCE Mason Tenders District Council