Carpenters union rallies outside Framingham hotel where they say tax fraud occurred
But for several weeks, he and 15 co-workers didn’t see a dime.
The Connecticut-based company for which Valencia worked for held back payments to its workers, putting them in a financial bind.
Valencia and his co-workers were eventually paid after bringing a case before the company, but it didn’t go without significant stress.
“It was very difficult because we didn’t have money for rent or food,” said Valencia, who recently applied for a carpenters union apprentice program.
More than 60 members of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Local 336 all clad in bright-green masks saying Stop Wage Theft along with state Reps. Maria Robinson and Rep. Jack Patrick Lewis and several city councilors held a rally Wednesday afternoon to bring awareness to the ongoing issue of tax fraud in construction. The group called on legislators to pass wage theft and tax fraud le
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York-based engineering firm completes contract on £90m building
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AN engineering specialist with offices in York has completed work on a new £90 million learning space for the University of Glasgow. SES Engineering Services (SES) say construction of the seven-storey 16,640sqm James McCune Smith Learning Hub, the catalyst project and the first building to be delivered under the university’s Campus Development Programme, has been ongoing since 2017. For part of the time the build team has had to work within strict Covid-19 guidelines – with the project effectively shut down from early March until June 2020. When fully operational, the building will accommodate over 2,500 students, the new facility will not only feature flexible open learning space and technology-enhanced active teaching resources, it also boasts five lecture theatres (the largest of which will hold up to 500 students), interactive teaching spaces that can accommodate anything from 48 to 108 students as well as several seminar and group study spaces.