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Building Trades, Citing Subcontractor Labor Abuses, Pulling Investments Out of Mass Mutual

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Submitted by pvaflcio on Thu, 07/08/2004 - 3:02pm. |

Building and Construction Trades Unions are encouraging other unions to pull any investments with Mass Mutual out. Mass Mutual, a Fortune 500 life insurance company based in Springfield, MA, is coming under fire for hiring building contractors that exploit workers.

From a flyer distributed to the public, The Building Trades state the contractors have:

  • Refused to pay Social Security Taxes for their workers
  • Refused to pay unemployment taxes for their workers
  • Missclassified defenseless immigrant workers as subcontractors
  • Employed Labor Ready workers
  • Refused access to the job by union organizers and agents, prompting an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP), to be filed with the National Labor Relations Board.
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