Clad in orange T-shirts and hard hats, dozens of workers from Construction and General Building Laborers’ Local 79 rallied in front of Federal Hall’s steps June 27 to protest what they said is the Trump Administration’s efforts to stymie unions’ free-speech rights by inhibiting the display of one of their most powerful symbols: the inflatable rat.
The union and its lawyers are battling the National Labor Relations Board in Federal court after the owner of a ShopRite store being built in Staten Island, Kevin Mannix, filed a complaint with the agency when the site was picketed by Local 79 because the construction company was using non-union crews.
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