Syracuse, NY -- Fifteen area union locals have signed a labor agreement with the company handling the cleanup of Onondaga Lake for Honeywell. Parson Engineering said Thursday it had reached an agreement with area unions represented by the Central and Northern New York Building and Construction Trades Council that could create as many as 150 new jobs in coming years....
Syracuse, NY -- Fifteen area union locals have signed a labor agreement with the company handling the cleanup of Onondaga Lake for Honeywell.
Parson Engineering said Thursday it had reached an agreement with area unions represented by the Central and Northern New York Building and Construction Trades Council that could create as many as 150 new jobs in coming years.
Ronald Haney, business manager of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local 195 in Syracuse, said trades workers would be involved in building infrastructure and temporary buildings as Parsons works to clear pollution from the lake bottom.
Honeywell is paying an estimated $451 million to clean up the lake, which served for decades as a dump for municipal and industrial waste. The clean-up project includes dredging sediment, which contains mercury and chemical compounds like polychlorinated biphenyls, better known as PCBs, and burying the sediment in Wastebed 13, an old AlliedSignal waste disposal area off Airport Road