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Before that, building workers last walked out in 1979 and 1976.

In addition thousands of building workers will also lose their jobs.

Building workers have boarded up the broken windows to keep out the cold.

Certainly the building workers insist that this isn't just another job.

First, a large number of cottages were built, thus creating jobs for building workers.

Apartment building workers last went on strike 15 years ago, in a 12-day walkout.

The last strike by apartment building workers was a 12-day walkout in 1991.

The building workers will get a $16-a-week raise in the first year of the contract, or 3.46 percent.

Tenants at 450 apartment houses in the Bronx were hit by a building workers' strike.

It's not unusual to see office building workers clustered by the front door taking smoking breaks.

The office building workers' three-year contract, signed 17 months ago, provided raises of slightly more than 3 percent a year.

Early this week the general secretary pointed out that the recession has thrown almost half a million building workers on the dole.

"There needs to be a fundamental change in the labor movement and a concentration on building worker power through organizing."

When the last three-year contract expired in 1991, building workers received an annual raise of about 3.5 percent.

Would building workers be allowed to work in the open air only with protective headgear and long shirts?

Residents elsewhere in the city can call 311 for a buildings worker to be sent to look at their decks.

Another element, yet to be factored in, is the recent contract settlement for the building workers' union.

For building workers, the practice is less uniform.

Not flinching from being provocative, he suggested that the building workers have gone on strike in the wrong city.

Although negotiations have not yet started, landlords said they would demand a lower starting wage for the building workers.

The apartment building workers, who earn an average of almost $29,000 a year, went on strike for 12 days in 1991.

Apartment building workers could go on strike Monday, when their labor contract expires.

Why cannot this incompetent Government get their act together and put those building workers to build houses for those families?

Rather, they took part in building workers unity slates (especially at the level of the autonomous communities).

The reason: apartment residents generally have stronger ties to their building workers than do tenants in office buildings.