John Edwards Calls on Pulte Homes to Assure Safe Working Conditions

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/07/13/john-edwards-calls-on-pulte-homes-to-assure-safe-working-conditions/

John Edwards Calls on Pulte Homes to Assure Safe Working Conditions

by Tula Connell, Jul 13, 2007

When building and contruction workers peacefully protested working conditions at the Arizona job sites where they are employed by subcontractors of Pulte Homes, they were sprayed with powerful blasts of water from the contractors’ truck, which repeatedly circled back to spray them (see video).

On July 11, former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) sent a letter to Richard Dugas, CEO of Pulte Homes, demanding the company take responsibility for subpar working conditions on its job sites.

Edwards wrote to Dugas that he wants to express his concern

with recent reports that workers building homes for your company in Arizona and Nevada are subject to troubling conditions at their worksites.

Moreover, there have been reports of unsafe working conditions…a lack of available drinking water, and unpaid overtime wages.

Edwards also noted that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel issued a complaint against one of Pulte’s key subcontractors, Chas Roberts Air Conditioning, that it threatened its workers with reprisals if they engaged in union activities.

http://www.buildingjustice.org/ht/a/GetImageAction/i/51030

Building Justice is a coalition of workers, community members, Pulte homeowners and elected officials working to improve working conditions at Pulte developments. On June 22, video footage was released showing Pulte subcontractors spraying high-pressure water at construction workers picketing Pulte subcontractors in Florence, Ariz.

For more background information, visit Building Justice and get a copy of Edwards’ letter here: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/upload/aflcio.pulteletter.pdf

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. read Zinn.

This is the logical result of current practices.