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Posted on 02/17/2020 2:56:24 PM PST by karpov
A week before the accident, Segundo Huerta’s wife said, her husband had complained to her that the boss at the Bronx construction site where he was working was pressuring his laborers, berating them for working too slowly.
Mr. Huerta’s wife, Maria Guazhco, said her husband had told her that after 17 years with the company, he would try to find another job. Nonetheless, she said, he returned to the site the next week.
“And then,” Ms. Guazhco, 39, said, “everything collapsed.”
Mr. Huerta, 46, was killed on Aug. 27 after the third floor of the building where he was working crumbled, burying and trapping his body under hundreds of pounds of rubble.
He was one of 12 people, 10 of them Latino, who died in construction-related accidents last year, according to preliminary data from the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a workers’ safety advocacy group, and the Department of Buildings. The number of construction-related deaths has been consistent for the past four years.
Mr. Huerta’s death reflects the dangers that persist at New York construction sites despite the reams of rules and regulations the city has imposed to protect workers, many of whom, like Mr. Huerta, are Latino and undocumented. The families left behind have little recourse to fill the financial void created by such tragedies.
From 2006 to 2016, nearly half of the workers at nonunion job sites in the city were Hispanic or Latino, compared with about 30 percent at union sites, according to Lawrence Mishel, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. The slice of workers at nonunion sites who are Hispanic or Latino is probably more than 50 percent now, Mr. Mishel said.
Undocumented workers are less likely to have the same safeguards as other workers.
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If we built a wall and booted the illegals out, this guy would still be alive, in Mexico.
Not really in the mood to shed a tear over this.
I don't like seeing illegal aliens abused, but it is a matter of choice.
That person made his choice.
So the NYSlimes wants better working conditions for illegal aliens, huh? If they supported ONLY legal immigration, they wouldn’t have illegals getting killed in the first place! RIP to those who died.
Segundo Huerta...
What happened to Primero Huerta? Another construction accident?
I wonder if there’ll be a Tercero Huerta?
If they hadn’t broken our immigration/residency/labor laws they’d probably still be alive.
Note that the illegal alien was also willing to break the law for a fast buck. They were both playing a game, one on one side and one on the other
That’s right.
That being said this is a tragedy and an example of regression to 100-120 years ago when Italians of questionable immigration status were exploited by the same folks.
The irony is apparently lost on the New York Times. If I owned a business in a city that goes to such great lengths to protect people who are living in this country illegally, I wouldn’t feel obligated to obey a single rule or regulation that city imposed on me — let alone REAMS of them.
Demonicrats love them some illegal slaves.
I thought (correction, I know) buildings are supposed to be inspected during the building process. I am also pretty darn sure that NYC is likely to require that plans be drawn and sealed by an engineer. Does that engineer also perform the inspections or at least coordinate with city inspectors?
Why is this article about the worker’s being Latino and not about the obvious blatant failure of the city’s permitting, inspection, and building process?
Remember, Biden said illegal aliens are a gift to our country.
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And I should care, WHY?
I writing from ignorance here, but I thought that construction jobs were pretty high paid—especially in NYC. Also, I imagine, unionized. So how are illegal aliens being allowed to work at NYC job sites?
Progressivism at work.
Deport all illegal aliens.
If it only saves one life, it would be worth it.
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