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Construction workers start campaign against low wages, working conditions on a Manhattanville dormitory

Outside Columbia’s gates on 116th Street and Broadway stand a couple of inflatable rats, put up by representatives from the New York City District Council of Carpenters’ “Why the Rat?” campaign, who say that the rodents are staying up until the council’s demands for higher wages and better treatment of Columbia workers on the Manhattanville project are met.

By Kathy Fang • October 26, 2020 at 2:23 AM

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Photo by Paul Hanna / inflatable rats

For a little over a month, NYCDCC members set up large, inflatable rats outside Columbia’s gates on 116th Street and Broadway as a part of the citywide “Why the Rat?” campaign to protest Columbia’s labor conditions for the construction of its new Manhattanville campus, which resumed on April 19.