Hundreds of unionized concrete workers walked off the job at the World Trade Center Monday, setting up for a possible strike in the coming days.
The contract covering the workers expired on July 1. Since then, the concrete workers have been operating without a new contract.
A source familiar with the matter said the two parties are currently negotiating.
With concrete workers no longer on the job, construction of the World Trade Center’s new transit hub has halted, according to a person familiar with the matter. Other construction tradesmen continued work at the site on Monday, but within days will not be able to proceed further, the person said.
Concrete workers also stopped working at Tower 1, but other construction there will be able to continue for about a week or so, according to another person familiar with the matter.
Monday’s work stoppage by the concrete workers union will have “no impact on construction of the 9/11 Memorial, which remains on track to open on the tenth anniversary [of the attacks], and minimal impacts on the site’s other projects,” said Steve Coleman, a spokesman with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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