From Crains:
With a contract deadline a week away, a survey of developers has found that a work stoppage by operating engineers could silence construction on private-sector projects worth nearly $10 billion and temporarily idle more than 11,300 workers.
With the operating engineers' union contracts set to expire June 30, the Real Estate Board of New York survey shows that work could stop on commercial and retail projects spanning more than 13 million square feet and on residential sites totaling more than 6,300 units.
Projects that could be halted include Forest City Ratner's Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which employs 1,000 construction workers; Silverstein Properties' World Trade Center Tower 4, which employs 800; and Extell Development Co.'s International Gem Tower in midtown, which employs 500.
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13 comments:
Most these Engineers and Micky Mice designing buildings with all the same CAD software are overpaid jerks. Most these people couldn't work a slide rule or make one correct decision in a real emergency without a computer.
They can all take a hike IMHO
As a former slide-rule user, it is a fact that computers and calculators are more accurate.
While many cry that unions are destroying this country, we ship our union jobs overseas because everyone seems to want people to live like this:
"Pan Zhongwang, a 55-year-old steel polisher, is a typical Zhenhua worker. He arrives at 7 a.m. and leaves at 11 p.m., often working seven days a week. He lives in a company dorm and earns about $12 a day."
It's basically modern day slavery.
The quote is from today's NYTimes article titled "Bridge Comes to San Francisco With a Made-in-China Label"
Apparently saving $400 million is worth sending billions of dollars to the Chinese instead of putting it into our own economy. THAT is what is killing our Country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp
Good!
Anything that halts these big footprint mega development projects is OK with me.
Hope the strike lasts at least 6 months!
Then maybe Silvertein and Ratner will lose their shirts.
At their ages a coronary is possible, with them having to worry about cost overages and delayed shedules.
That would also be a boon to us all.
"Pan Zhongwang, a 55-year-old steel polisher, is a typical Zhenhua worker. He arrives at 7 a.m. and leaves at 11 p.m., often working seven days a week. He lives in a company dorm and earns about $12 a day."
It's basically modern day slavery.
That's slavery?
He gets 8 hours off every day, what more do you want?
A lunch room with a ping pong table?
The quote is from today's NYTimes article titled "Bridge Comes to San Francisco With a Made-in-China Label"
Apparently saving $400 million is worth sending billions of dollars to the Chinese instead of putting it into our own economy. THAT is what is killing our Country.
So, "Lino", what's your point?
San Francisco is one of, if not THE most liberal city in America.
If those nice white San Francisco "liberals" who are supposed to be concerned about creating stable, unionized, "living wage" jobs for the "working classes", don't give a rat's ass about creating jobs for Americans, then who are YOU going to blame?
(I suppose those nice white San Fran "liberals" have better things to do, such as banning circumcision!)
Try and spin this one and blame it on the "Republican" former Governor Schwarzenegger!
(I have no allegiance to either party - they both suck, and only care about themselves, not Americans.)
Lino?
Sorry, you're barking up the wrong tree.
The problem is more than just a political one. The problem is the negative perception by the average US citizen of the working class in this country, and the willingness to ship jobs and money overseas at the expense of supporting the working people and local economies in this country. We should be outraged at this, but no one gives a shit because they are already content to buy everyday items made in China that last a couple of years if you are lucky. Sad to say this country is on the way into the shitter, and we will only be reaping what we sow when things get really bad.
I have news for you, the working class and poor are primarily the ones buying the made-in-China shit.
The problem is the negative perception by the average US citizen of the working class in this country, and the willingness to ship jobs and money overseas at the expense of supporting the working people and local economies in this country.
I'm with you 100% on that brother!
I have news for you, the working class and poor are primarily the ones buying the made-in-China shit.
I'm not so sure about that. The rich sure do like to buy a lot of Ferraris, BMWs, Mercedes, and Porsches.
Hell....
I'm middle class and have an impossible time finding American company products that ARE NOT manufactured in China.
i.e.
Yesterday at "Home Depot" I bought a "Black & Decker" weed whacker.
Small type on the bottom of the box revealed that it was "made in China".
So were all their other competitors products so I had NO CHOICE!
I opted for, at least, what I thought was a good brand name instead of buying Ryobi, Homelite, etc. (made in China too)
We're all being economically butt fucked by the Chinese!
I hope that my "Westinghouse" light bulbs (also made in China) last more than a month and my "Powertech" extension cord doesn't short out!
What I find very funny is that during the 1950s if you were thought to be a communist sympathizer, you were persecuted to the ends of the earth.
But now we can all openly support a communist country by buying their products without Senator Joseph Mc Carthy breathing down our necks.
One might say....well (LOL) that's "progress"!
"But now we can all openly support a communist country by buying their products without Senator Joseph Mc Carthy breathing down our necks."
Aside from the fact that 'Alky-Joe" died in disgrace, the reason these companies have moved nearly all production there is simply profit maximization.
Those righteous rightwing farmers shut their mouths when it came to selling grain to the Soviets in the seventies and beyond.
Most businessmen will sell their mothers to the highest bidder.
Deke DaSilva said...I'm not so sure about that. The rich sure do like to buy a lot of Ferraris, BMWs, Mercedes, and Porsches.
Those cars are NOT made in China....And who names their kid "Deke"? No wonder you are so dumb.
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