Date:12/26/2008

mpany, was working for Plaza Construction, the general contractor for the project, when the construction site accident and injury occurred.

According to the Daily News, The New York City Buildings Department has issued 28 violations at the 11 Times Square site, most of them to Plaza Construction for such serious Class 1 infractions as "failure to safeguard all persons and property" and "failure to maintain all areas used by the public free from conditions of hazard."

Perecman charges that despite the laundry list of complaints against the contractor, and similar well-publicized problems with other contractors in New York, neo-conservative and anti-worker organizations and business groups, like Unshackle Upstate, continue to lobby Albany relentlessly in an effort to undermine laws that protect workers' health and safety in the workplace.

"When Governor Pataki was in office and ran the administration in the state," Perecman explained, "many conservative judges were appointed some of whose decisions tended to weaken New York State Labor Laws, the so-called, Safe Place to Work Laws."
    
"In my own experience as far as New York State goes," he added, "when more conservative-minded judges are appointed to the bench, as was the case during the Pataki years, it resulted in some decisions that weakened worker safety laws. Often these well-meaning judges
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