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...Mr Ross’s foe is Gary LaBarbera, a one-time forklift driver who heads the Building and Construction Trades Council — an umbrella group that represents the 100,000 or so union workers who put up the city’...
...“The Church has the right and duty to send messages of brotherhood and equality,” she says....
...More than seven out of 10 contractors reported difficulty finding carpenters, 60 per cent for electricians and 56 per cent for roofers....
...This has drawn the ire of New York’s Council of Carpenters, which has written to the fair sponsors to complain about the use of non-unionised workmen....
...from the military and local volunteers....
...The club’s 25 members are working on a project to create a “room-box” of a Tudor kitchen, working from boxes run up by a local carpenter at £14 a time....
...“Whoever says they are going to eliminate Nafta will get my vote,” says Rick Subby, a master carpenter who works for the local council and whose unionised workplace is festooned with Irish and Italian tricolours...
...He also began recruiting local investors, and eventually signed up 10, including the local carpenters union. “A lot of life is just picking up the phone,” Tierney told me....
...mostly local, all-age crowd of men and women - welders, machinists, dockers, store clerks, fishermen, timber-industry workers, students, marching together under the aegis of the union federation AFL-CIO,...
...Trade unions with affiliated pension funds, notably the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, were exasperated at the SEC’s inaction....
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