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One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the so-called “Freedom Tower” and it isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point [ Read More ]
Google celebrates Labor Day on Tuesday, May 1, with a special logo, represented by a worker equipped with overalls, helmet and tool kit, which lifted the Google logo. Labour Day is also known as the May Day. Reduction of daily working standard hourly fed into the significance of May 1st as International Workers Day. In 1872, about 100,000 workers in New York most of the construction industry, have demonstrated, demanding reduction of working time to 8 hours. May 1 is, for the first time about the meeting, in 1886, the Federation of Trade Unions of the United States and Canada [ Read More ]