LABOR-MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP at the World Trade Center Emergency Project

Abstract

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath have tested New York’s unionized construction industry as never before. By all accounts, the industry has more than met the challenge, in part because of a cooperative spirit and functional partnership that characterize its labor relations. Nowhere is that spirit more clearly revealed than in the relationship between the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, which represents more than 100,000 union members, and the Building Trades Employers Association, which represents more than 1,500 unionized contractors. And at no time has that partnership been more vital to New York City than now.