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“United Hispanic is what is known as a coalition, one of the dozens of minority organizations that try to shoulder their way into the construction trade. Forged during the idealism of the 1960s, and later exploited in many quarters by opportunists who have tainted much of the field, the coalitions were born to help disenfranchised laborers get a piece of the pie.
With New York enjoying an unprecedented building boom, the pie is particularly big these days. According to figures from the New York Building Congress, a consortium of contractors, developers, architects and others in the industry, there are 123,000 jobs in construction in the city ”” almost 15 percent more than in 2004 ”” and the members of United Hispanic Construction Workers are determined to land some of them.”
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