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Local 79 Health Fair
Join the members of Local 79 and their families for a fun-filled all-day outing. The fair offers members and their families the opportunity to receive health screenings (blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose) and get health-related information. Activities include swimming, basketball, volleyball, climbing walls, soccer, miniature golf, softball, raffles, dancing, and an all-day barbeque. Where: Coleman Country Day Camp, Merrick, NY When: Saturday, June 7, 2014, 11:00 am-4:00 pm (rain date: [...]
Park Cleanup Weekend: Local 79 Volunteeers Needed
Join members of Local 79 on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22 to help clean up two New York City parks. Saturday Wingate Park Cleanup What: Join Friends of Wingate Park to clean up Wingate Park When: Saturday, June 21 at 10:00 am Where: Wingate Park (meet at corner of Brooklyn Avenue and Rutland Road) Refreshments will be served For more information, contact Anthony Williamson at 646-265-5675 Flyer for Wingate Park [...]
Historic Agreement Reached with Brookfield Properties
The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York recently signed a portfolio labor agreement with Brookfield Properties, an agreement that covers virtually all of Brookfield’s existing and new construction. This agreement ensures that Brookfield, historically a good union developer, will continue to be so over the course of the 20 year agreement. Initially, the agreement was intended to be a project labor agreement to cover the Manhattan West [...]
Rebuilding Ground Zero, Rebuilding a Life: Phil English
Phil English, a member of Local 79, was recently profiled in an article in the Los Angeles Times, a major national newspaper. (LA Times article on Phil English) A Laborer for 15 years, he worked at Ground Zero for six months after the tragic 9/11 attack and then returned in 2007 to help build One World Trade Center, where he continues to work today. He suffered his own personal tragedy [...]
Danny Glover: A Friend of Labor
On Thursday, January 30, renowned actor Danny Glover was scheduled to give a speech on “Workers’ Rights at Home and Abroad” at Pace University. What Mr. Glover didn’t know when he agreed to accept the invitation to give the talk was that Local 79 and other building trades had been carrying on a lengthy campaign against Pace University’s use of a non-union contractor to build its’ new 35-story dormitory building. When [...]
Immigration Reform Now!: Local 79 Joins Rally in Washington DC
On Tuesday, October 8, four buses filled with Local 79 members and their families arrived in Washington DC to participate in the Camino Americano rally. The rally was organized in support of broad immigration legislation, a top priority of LiUNA and of Local 79. Included in the legislation, which has already passed the Senate, is a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Several thousand people from around the country, including [...]
May Day 2014 Rally
Rally at City Hall at 5:00 pm on Thursday, May 1 in support of raising the minimum wage, defending the scaffolding law and job safety, passing the NYS Dream Act, taxing the 1%, establishing universal pre-K for all NY families. May Day Flyer
Local 79 Job Site Visit at 911 Call Center Project in The Bronx
Local 79 Business Manager Mike Prohaska, President Kenny Brancaccio and Business Agent Barrie Smith gather with Local 79 Members and Local 79 contractor Maria Rios of Classico Building Maintenance Inc. at the March 2014 Greater N.Y. LECET sponsored job site visit at the 911 Call Center Project; Bronx, New York. Tishman Aecom is the construction manager.
Immigration Forum
As many of you know, immigration reform is one of the top priorities of LiUNA. In an effort to provide the membership with information related to immigration and immigration reform, Local 79 is presenting an Immigration Forum at St. Vartan Church on the afternoon of Sunday, April 6th from 2:00-5:00 pm. The forum, which will be presented in Spanish (with simultaneous Spanish-to-English interpretation over headsets) will address the following topics: [...]
Rat Alert! May 28 Rally in Queens
LOCAL 79 QUEENS MEMBERSHIP CALL TO ACTION! Developer Alma Realty is seeking zoning changes to allow it to build three waterfront towers up to 32-stories tall, plus two shorter towers inland. We must make sure that Queens politicians do not grant this developer zoning changes that will return millions of dollars in profit without assurance that the workers from Queens will share in this economic development. WHEN: Wednesday, May 28 [...]
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