NYC CARPENTERS RANK-AND-FILE ORGANIZED: 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

9/26 Courthouse Rally Press Release

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Updated Directions to Courthouse and Rally

The location for our 3:00-5:30pm sound permit is BAXTER & WORTH Streets, at the NORTH entrance of the U.S. District Courthouse (500 Pearl St.)

Google Maps (Baxter & Worth) http://g.co/maps/v4gdd

Travel to The United States District Court in Manhattan http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/jury_travel.php?location=manhattan

#4, 5 or 6 SUBWAY to BROOKLYN BRIDGE/CITY HALL STATION. Exit at the rear of the platform, towards the last car of the subway train. When you come up above ground you will be standing in Foley Square. Pearl Street will be across the square. The courthouse is located 1/2 block down Pearl Street in a new high-rise building. However, for security purposes, you must use the WORTH STREET entrance. Worth Street is at the top, or north end, of Foley Square, on the left side of the two large courthouses. Go right on Worth Street for 1 block to the courthouse.

J, Z SUBWAY to CHAMBERS STREET STATION. Walk north on CENTRE STREET to WORTH STREET. Make a right on Worth Street to the U.S. Courthouse.

#1, 2, or 3 and A or C SUBWAY to CHAMBERS STREET STATION. Walk north on CHURCH STREET (with traffic) to WORTH STREET. Make a right on Worth Street to the U.S. Courthouse.

N or R SUBWAY to CITY HALL STATION. Walk north on BROADWAY to WORTH STREET. Make a right on Worth Street to the U.S. Courthouse.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

local157.blogspot article:

COURT HOUSE RALLY!!!

Union Carpenters Stand Up For Your Rights!

Where: 500 PEARL STREET

When: 3pm Monday September 26, 2011
Why: Protest UBC Full Mobility

Sound permits are in place for a protest rally, at Baxter & Worth Streets, outside the North end of the US Courthouse (500 Pearl Street,) to send a message to federal judge Richard Berman, that the rank and file are against full mobility.

Carpenters will be be gathering outside 500 Pearl Street starting at 7:30 am. There is a status conference scheduled at 9:00 am in courtroom 21B if you would like to attend and voice your concerns to judge Berman. The protest rally will begin at 3:00 pm.

For more information go to nyccrfo.blogspot.com

On September 14, Delegates to the District Counci

l voted and approved a "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the Association of Wall-Ceiling and Carpentry Industries

, by a vote of 35-28.

The MOU is for five years and provides no raise the first year, an increase of $2.60 in the second year, $2.65 in the third year and $2.70 in each of the fourth and fifth years.

As part of the deal contractors will get full mobility, or contractors' insistence on the right to hire 100% of workers they choose. Presently, as per a federal judge's order, they must hire a third of their workers through the councils out-of-work-list.

Rank and fliers argue that full mobility will destroy the union by turning it into a contractors club with no ability to obtain work from the out-of-work-list. The full mobility provision is contingent on judge Berman's approval and a formal motion must be presented before the court.

Also in the MOU, contractors will get a 20% wage discount (Market Recovery Rate) on residential and hotel projects of 20 stories or less in Manhattan and on all residential and hotel projects in the outer boroughs, regardless of size. The deal also includes a helper/scraper category, (language to be determined) with a total package not to exceed $25 per hour to "clean up and handle deliveries," and jobs with two carpenters will not need a shop steward.

http://local157.blogspot.com/2011/09/court-house-rally.html