Many construction workers around the region are on strike, including those working on the corner of NW Market St and 15th Ave NW.
Work has come to a standstill at the half-finished site, soon to be the home of Target, Polyclinic, WeWork and Equal Exchange coffee. Keith Slack, superintendent for Lease Crutcher Lewis at the 15th and Market site, says the entire crew has stopped working in solidarity with the six union members who are striking at that site.
The regional crane operators union (International Union of Operating Engineers Local 302) told all members working the Washington Master Labor Agreement to not report for work after their latest contract proposal was rejected. The union wanted a 15 percent raise over three years, plus better health and pension benefits.
Workers have been on strike since Tuesday morning. “Now it’s kind of a waiting game,” Slack says, adding that the strike could potentially create some delays in finishing the build.
Those on strike include concrete pumpers, dirt workers, and pavers. The strike excludes some workers, such as those who work for Skanska, KLB Construction, and Cadman Materials. The strike is affecting sites all over the region, including the Amazon Spheres in downtown Seattle.
So much privilege
Exactly: the real working class is a transgendered, POC, disabled, female-identifying, queer, community college poetry therapy major.
This is really unfair to the new Amazon employees who won’t be able to enjoy their new $6 million apartments. They’ll have to stay in their current $2 million apartments for an extra year.
Almost like college was a good idea after all
Maybe they can finish it right after the 14th Ave park gets finished.
There has been some progress, I noticed a bench has been installed.(so far unoccupied)
That bench was installed a while ago
My mistake, make that no progress.
Hooray. I live next door and these jerks have kept getting permits from the city to start work at 6am every week. It’s like a living hell getting no sleep and endless machinery noises.
The only people who sleep in that late are stay in bed moms
2 things: 1: It must feel nice sleeping in again, and 2: I sleep in until 13:00 on a regular basis.
“Stay in bed mom” is one of Harley Lever’s misogynistic tics. It’s one of the ways you can recognize his cowardly sock puppetry. There’s many “stay in bed moms” posts here, under the fake handels ‘Concerned Ballard Millenial’, “Concerned Ballard Parent”, Why don’t you post under one name, Harley? We all know it’s you.
The tic shows up with “wine-drinking soccer mom” by the fake screen names “Jeff Gordon”, “phoo”, and “ploy for Mom’s to look cool and munch on cookies ” by the fake name “Ballardite”.
I wonder what Freud would say about Harley’s mother complexes. Unresolved anger at women everywhere because mom didn’t do enough for little Harley, I guess. Clearly she drank. Now here we are, with mommy’s little freak. Day after day after day. Same crap under different names.
triggered!!!!!
Harley “I totally have a job!!!” Lever using “stay in bed mom’s” as some kind of insult, a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black?
Ballard is gone. Now just rows of sunlight-robbing, industrial-looking, personality-less tall buildings. Creeping greed stole it.
They didn’t steal it. Old Ballard greed sold it to them.
15% over 3 years! The nerve
To give GLY some credit their executives only bring in about 4x the compensation of their avg workers compared to an avg of 271x for the largest 350 companies in the US.
Only because it’s difficult to impossible to outsource construction jobs, plus those pesky unions force executives to pay their workers living wages. The gall!
15% over three… not that much considering the amount of building going on!