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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 ::
Underground Empire By Tom Robbins, Village Voice
With Bloomberg's deputy mayor Daniel Doctoroff at his side, Walentas broke ground on December 1 as members of the carpenters', laborers', teamsters', and other construction unions hooted, jeered, and displayed a 12-foot-tall inflated gray rubber rat.
'We bid the different trades and then used the best people we could get, at the lowest cost,' the dapper developer told the Daily News' Hugh Son at the groundbreaking. 'It's the American way.'
'It's hardly the American way to exploit people like this,' countered Anthony Pugliese, an organizer for the District Council of Carpenters who has led a series of protests at the site. 'What he's doing is taking advantage of his workers. And he's not doing it because he doesn't have the money, but in order to make more.'------------------------------------------- posted 6:59 AM :: reference link ::
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