Freestate Electrical is suing Donald Trump's organization for failing to pay $2 million dollars for work done on the luxury hotel in the Old Post Office Building. Freestate, an Electrical Workers signatory contractor, did award-winning work on the building when Trump was running for president. Four other contractors have sued over the project, claiming nearly $5 million in unpaid bills. “I want to make clear that this is not political,” said Tim Miller, executive vice president at Freestate’s parent company, AES Electrical. “Whether it is Trump, or somebody you never heard of, we did a good job, at an agreed upon price and we want to be paid for it. We’d rather be talking about what an excellent job our employees did on a complex project than doing this.” The hundreds of IBEW members who worked on the project have been paid for the work Freestate was contracted to do.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1932, the Norris-La Guardia Act restricts injunctions against unions and bans yellow dog contracts, which require newly-hired workers to declare they are not union members and will not join one. In 1970, five days into the Post Office’s first mass work stoppage in 195 years, President Nixon declared a national emergency and ordered 30,000 troops to New York City to break the strike. The troops didn’t have a clue how to sort and deliver mail and a settlement came a few days later. In 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded in Chicago by some 3,000 delegates from 58 unions and other organizations. Today’s labor quote is by the editor of the United Mine Workers' Journal, who wrote: “This agreement has been well named. It is yellow dog for sure. It reduces to the level of a yellow dog any man that signs it, for he signs away every right he possesses under the Constitution and laws of the land and makes himself the truckling, helpless slave of the employer.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org.
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