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September 4, 2007
At 23 Caton Place, Laborers Labor on Labor Day
What's a national holiday celebrating the toils of the working class when you've got a 120,000-square-foot building to complete! This photo of work proceeding apace at developer Moshe Feller's 107-unit, $32 million residential project at 23 Caton Place was sent in yesterday by a reader. Turns out, though, that while Feller may have been violating the spirit of the day, he wasn't breaking any Department of Buildings regulations by having his laborers report to work. GMAP P*Shark DOB
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The majority of these workers get paid by the hour/day so if they don't work they don't get paid. Many of them would rather work and have the money rather than have the day off.
Posted by: guest at September 4, 2007 10:19 AM
I can understand the day laborer not wanting a day off, but how about the local residents, for God's sake?
Wait, they don't work for the developers, so screw them, right?
Posted by: Action Jackson at September 4, 2007 10:30 AM
i'm sure the workers were working by choice
as an hourly employee myself, i can relate
Posted by: guest at September 4, 2007 10:44 AM
hey, there were people working at Target, why don't you take a picture of them?
what's the point here?
Posted by: oe at September 4, 2007 12:41 PM
I agree with oe @ 12:41. What's the point here? A lot of retail employees work on labor day as well as other workers in hospitals,etc. Who cares?
Posted by: guest at September 4, 2007 12:58 PM
I gather that the point is that labor unions--put aside your prejudices as these are the people who brought you the concept of the weekend--used to be celebrated and working people used to get a special day off to commemorate the value of labor.
Now, low-wage workers--be they construction workers or Target employees--can't afford any time off. The guys building million dollar pieces of crap have no more rights than they did 100 years ago, because our society devalues labor to the point of bringing in illegal immigrants to in effect work as our slaves.
Raising the wages of these guys wuldn't raise the prices of apartments more--sheer speculation and filthy greed are the causes of high real estate costs. Union-built condos are not more expensive--just safer and of higher quality.
Plus the neighbors don't have to hear construction noise on their end-of-summer barbecue.
Posted by: greenguest at September 4, 2007 8:01 PM
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