Not just any union. Must be a teamster recognized by NY trade something or other.
Most NY construction sites, Javitz center,a lot of office furniture deliveries,are ruled by them. So is Atlantic City Casino deliveries.
Therer are weird arrangements like so many deliveries per job do not have to be teamster or you can deliver it but you you pay a fee that covers the salary of a union worker for the day.
I once delivered a load to a constudction site and was given $50.The boss said to give it to the guy who asks for the caerd. A guy with a clip board shows up and wants to see my card. I handed him the 50 and he went absolutely ballistic. I was scared to death as he told other teamsters what I did. I thought they were going to kill me....no kidding...they refused the load and I was blocked in for quite a while. I got back to the yard and told the boss what happened.
actual conversation
Me"I thought you had an arrangement"
Boss"No, I just thought $50 might work"
I used to deliver furniture at night in Manhattan.
There is a whole world that works at night in NYC
Usually they try to take all the furniture out and new furniture in
before the office opens in the morning
There is a deadline and so its hectic but they overhire a zillion teamsters
to get the job finished.
(btw union furniture guys only use dollies,if a guy has to move his thermos, he puts it on a dolly)
On my first delivery I was pushing furniture down a ramp.
I did it for an hour or so and I was confronted with really mad dudes.
They yelled at me and again I was sure I was going to get a knee smashed or something.
"you a wanna do sometin?)"
"you pick up the gah -bidge,we don't touch no gah-bich"
"but don't touch the furniture, we'll rip the paper off and you pick it up...."
they could not drop the subject and kept mumbling about me
That was a very long night.......
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