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Know Your Rights: Protect the NY Scaffold Law
For over 130 years, the NY Scaffold Law (Labor Law §240 and §241) protected some of the most vulnerable workers in this state from the reckless actions of property owners and general...
Union Laborer to box on HBO
Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: On Saturday, July 15th Laborers Local 66's own Joe Smith Jr. Joe has brought a lot of attention to our local labor movement by routinely talking...
Organized Labor's Cinderella Man
On Saturday, December 17, Joe “The Beast” Smith Jr. fought former multi-class champion Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins in Hopkins final fight. After eight rounds,...
Joe Smith Jr. The Union Laborers Champ!
Joe Smith Jr. found boxing in a very familiar manner. As a 13-year-old growing up in Shirley on the South Shore of Long Island, Smith was the oldest of seven brothers and one sister, and wasn’t...
The Giving of a Turkey Voucher
With the holidays upon us, many people give thanks and take stock of their lives, their family and their jobs. We think of how we can give back to our friends, co-workers and community. For...
Proving apprenticeship graduation rates
When elected officials start talking about student debt and college, they often mention apprenticeship programs. These programs are a sort of a working college for the men and women who are...
Trades getting good press
Thousands of the best-paid blue-collar jobs in the Big Apple are opening up, starting with a huge union recruitment drive for carpenters and laborers.And the blue-collar compensation, with benefits...
Blue collar millennials
Washington Mayancela decided he wanted his life to be degree free.He joins legions of well-schooled millennials bucking the trend of college, taking often dirty but well-paid blue-collar jobs.Coming...
A real life Cinderella Man
On June 18th, Laborers Local 66-member Joe Smith Jr. shocked the world by knocking out the WBC Light-Heavyweight International Champion Andrzej Fonfara just minutes into the first round. The...
UCOMM site on National TV
If you’re a boxing fan, then you were definitely watching the Light Heavyweight fight between Joe Smith Jr and Andrzej Fonfara on NBC on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Fonfara was the massive fan...