A lawsuit has been filed by Rochester’s construction unions ….. seeking reinstatement of the Project Labor Agreement for the $1.3 billion Rochester school modernization project. Members of the Rochester Joint Schools Construction Board shot down the PLA at a meeting earlier this month. The board chair who opposed the move was ousted and replaced with […]
Former Rochester Mayor Tom Richards has been removed as head of the volunteer board overseeing the city’s enormous school modernization project. He’s been replaced by Allen Williams, a board member who was appointed by current Mayor Lovely Warren, and who serves as her director of special projects. Richards was appointed to the board by former […]
The second phase of Rochester’s massive public school modernization plan will go forward without a guarantee that jobs will go to local union workers…and to firms owned by women or minorities. The Joint Schools Construction Board overseeing the $1.3 billion project voted 4-3 against a Project Labor Agreement similar to the one adopted for phase one. […]