NLRB gives Issa deadline for payment

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Source: Buffalo News

By Sharon Linstedt

The British developer who halted a $100 million makeover of Buffalo’s historic Statler Towers in April now faces a “pay up” demand from the National Labor Relations Board.

The NLRB has set a July 17 deadline for Bashar Issa to begin making payments to 10 former Statler project laborers as required by a settlement agreement he signed in May. The Manchester, England-based developer has failed to make two payments, totaling $46,844, for back pay and lost wages.

“He is out of compliance with the settlement and we’ve sent out a letter of demand,” said Rhonda P. Ley, legal counsel for the NLRB’s Buffalo office.


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Developer Bashar Issa has failed to make two payments, totaling $46,844, for back pay and lost wages.


That letter, dated Monday, warns Issa that failure to meet the deadline will result in the agency’s demand for payment in full of $78,384. Isss’s BSC Development Buffalo LLC was accused of firing, demoting and abusing workers in retaliation for their decision to unionize as members of Laborers’ Local 210.


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