Early on Christmas morning 10 years ago, Jim Tucciarelli got an anonymous phone call informing him that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg planned to go to the Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Greenpoint to bring some holiday cheer to employees there.
Mr. Tucciarelli, who as president of Local 1320 of District Council 37 represented Sewage Treatment Workers, had good reason to believe his members wouldn’t be in a merry mood for the Mayor’s visit. In 2002, Mr. Bloomberg’s first year in office, Mr. Tucciarelli had decided, along with his counterpart at Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who represented those in the higher job titles of Stationary Engineer, Electrical and Senior Stationary Engineer, Electrical, that rather than settle for the same raises as other DC 37 members, they were going to seek significantly higher ones he believed they deserved under the city’s Prevailing Wage Law.
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