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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.
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.
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Contractors such as Pulte are as complicit in worker abuses as Walmart is complicit in pressuring suppliers/manufacturers to outsource. Pulte puts a great amount of downward pressure on subcontractor price, then washes their hands of any responsibility for workplace conditions or worker abuses. Pulte has been doing this for a long time and it’s great to see it get some political exposure. You’re a little soft on them but way to go John!!!
John may be a little soft on them, but where are the other so called “Labor Canidates”? Seems like every time you see a head line where one of the canidates is walking the walk, not just talking the talk it is John Edwards.
The rest of them are to busy raising money from the big dollar people in the world, and the majority of those are - big business. Think hard on that when you head to the polls to select a canidate.
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