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.

Pre-Production: Maximillian Alvarez

Studio/Post-Production: Jules Taylor

Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/nyc-unions-rally-against-exploitation-of-immigrant-demolition-workers

Additional links/info below...

Laborers Local 79 website, Facebook page, and Twitter page:
https://www.local79.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Laborers79/
https://twitter.com/local79nyc

Laborers Local 79 Twitter thread about the #Alba3:
https://twitter.com/local79nyc/status/1496872898128187406

Dean Moses, The Villager, "Hundreds of Union Employees Protest Alleged Exploitative Working Conditions at Chelsea Terminal Warehouse":
https://www.amny.com/news/hundreds-of-union-workers-protest-terminal-warehouses-exploitative-conditions/

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Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"

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NYC unions rally against exploitation of immigrant demolition workers