TAPInto reports Jersey City and Hudson County, New Jersey Officials joined Leaders from the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) in the shadow of Kushner Companies’ One Journal Square project earlier this week to call for immediate action in reforming what they called an under-regulated Construction Industry in Jersey City and to better protect Workers and honest contractors.  The press conference was held outside the project just days after a second Immigrant Construction Worker was seriously injured on the job only to be transported to the ground in a garbage container by their employer.  In both this and another recent incident, Union Officials say, the employer delayed seeking medical treatment and moved the Worker without consideration for potential head, neck and spinal injuries. LiUNA Vice President and Eastern Manager Michael Hellstrom said: “The business practices in local construction have changed over the past few years.  Construction sites have become modern-day sweatshops that prey upon vulnerable Workers and expose them to dangers and unfair treatment that we would not accept in other industries.  Not only are Workers placed at risk, but the entire industry suffers as standards are lowered and law-abiding contractors have trouble competing with businesses willing to take short-cuts, cheat, and exploit Workers to win work.” 

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