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Ironworkers hammer studio contractor for using non-union labor

At groundbreaking last year, mayor promised 'good-paying union jobs'

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 10/11/24

Laborers and ironworkers building a 266,000-square-foot studio space on Manhattan’s Far West Side are working in unsafe conditions, aren’t making a prevailing wage and don’t have union representation, members of Iron Workers Local 40 who have been picketing the site say. 

The union members have gathered outside Sunset Pier 94 Studios’ construction site each weekday morning for over a month in the hopes of calling attention to the non-union labor on the public-private partnership project.  

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