Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Mark Erlich, business manager of Carpenters' Local 40, renovations to the ninth floor of William James Hall are being conducted by a non-union contractor participating in illegal labor practices...
Erlich said the unnamed contractor is illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, paying substandard wages and providing little or no benefits and insurance. He criticized Harvard for "buying hot goods...
Behind the wheel was Joe Cubas, a 35-year-old Miami contractor who has shadowed the Cuban team for several years. Now the agent for both players, Cubas executed a similar pick-off play with Hernandez two months later in Mexico. The pitchers soon found themselves being wined and dined by a dozen clubs. They even partied with Gloria Estefan, courtesy of the Florida Marlins. They were also offered money beyond their dreams...
...flyer says that C.E. Floyd, the general contractor of the Smithsonian Center project, pays inadequate wages, provides few or no benefits and regularly violates tax, insurance and legal obligations...
Carpenters' Local 40 will continue picketing outside the construction site at 60 Garden St. today. The union charges that Harvard's general contractor for this project is employing illegal labor practices...