A rowdy group of construction workers blasted a builder
Tuesday for reneging on a vow to use union labor on a huge Queens project.
The workers, gathered at the Jackson Ave. site in Long
Island City, leveled epithets at developer Jerry Wolkoff of G&M Reality,
repeatedly chanting “piece of s---."
Their anger stems from a 2013 letter Wolkoff sent to
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, D-Queens, saying it was his “intention” to build
the huge apartment complex with union labor. Van Bramer called him a liar and
said “I won’t work with him again.”
In an interview, Wolkoff noted that he merely said he
“intended” to go union, but that a major subcontractor told him if he did, his
costs would rise 20%.
Source: New
York Daily News
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