NYC unions rally against exploitation of immigrant demolition workers

With Laborers Local 79 leading the charge, union demolition workers, construction workers, carpenters, bricklayers, and more have rallied multiple times in the past month outside the Chelsea Terminal Warehouse in New York City to protest the mishandling of workers' pensions and the exploitation, union busting, wage theft, and hazardous conditions workers have experienced at the job site. As Dean Moses reports in The Villager, "Many of the Laborers are immigrant demolition workers, also called los demolicionsitas, and construction workers who say that they have been deprived of healthcare throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to face intimidation and threats for trying to unionize Terminal Warehouse. Protesters named several culprits—three being New Line Structures, ECD NY and Alba Services—which, they alleged, have a history of wage theft and permitting hazardous working conditions.” TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks to Chaz Rynkiewicz, Vice President and Director of Organizing for Laborers Local 79, about the unjust firing of three demolicionsitas (also known as the “Alba3”) and the fight to protect union and non-union workers alike.<br /><br />Pre-Production: Maximillian Alvarez<br /><br />Studio/Post-Production: Jules Taylor<br /><br />Read the transcript of this podcast: <a href="https://therealnews.com/nyc-unions-rally-against-exploitation-of-immigrant-demolition-workers" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/nyc-unions-rally-against-exploitation-of-immigrant-demolition-workers</a><br /><br />Additional links/info below...<br /><br />Laborers Local 79 website, Facebook page, and Twitter page:<br /><a href="https://www.local79.org/" rel="noopener">https://www.local79.org/</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Laborers79/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/Laborers79/</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/local79nyc" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/local79nyc</a><br /><br />Laborers Local 79 Twitter thread about the #Alba3:<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/local79nyc/status