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August 1, 2011
Concrete Workers Strike at Atlantic Yards
The workers picketed in front of the site as part of a citywide concrete strike.
Park Slope Patch
By Kristen V. Brown
For the second time in less than a week, on Monday morning construction workers rallied outside the looming Barclays Center construction site.
About half of the 25 union concrete workers from the Atlantic Yards site picketed at the site entrance at Sixth Avenue and Pacific Street, joining a citywide strike that members of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council have threatened ever since the contract covering the workers expired on July 1.
Since then, cement workers have continued work at the Atlantic Yards site without a contract, pouring the site’s concrete floors, but today they said “enough.”
“We’re going to stand out here as long as it takes,” said one union member, who declined to give his name due to fears of retaliation. “They don’t want to let us work for a decent wage.”
Posted by eric at August 1, 2011 10:46 PM