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NEW YORK CITY'S building boom has created so many jobs that unions are reaching out across the country, pulling in as many as 1,000 temporary workers to supplement the city's construction workforce.
New York is a magnet for union plumbers, steamfitters, tilers, lathers and other construction workers invited here by New York union locals when they are at full employment. These "travelers" are helping to build the $2.5 billion Goldman Sachs headquarters rising in Battery Park City and installing marble tiles in new luxury condos all over town. With calls from workers pouring in from sluggish regions of the country and NewYork construction still on a tear, unions are expect-ed to bring in many more travelers. They will probably have a hand in building new Manhattan office towers and the new baseball stadiums in the Bronx and Queens.
Meeting demands
"WITH HELP from travelers and larger apprentice classes, I am cautiously optimistic about meeting the demands...