Correction: At the Atlantic Yards site (and others), a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) would have averted a strike
I wrote July 1 that a last-minute pact averted a citywide strike of construction workers, citing news reports that indicated a strike could have stopped work at the Atlantic Yards site.
Not so. The arena construction, and the rest of the work, is governed by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), which, as Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) reminded members, includes a no strike/no-lock out clause.
Here's a list of such projects.
As one commenter on the Local157 blog pointed out, informational picketing would be permitted.
Not so. The arena construction, and the rest of the work, is governed by a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), which, as Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) reminded members, includes a no strike/no-lock out clause.
Here's a list of such projects.
As one commenter on the Local157 blog pointed out, informational picketing would be permitted.
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