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Richard Fitzsimmons Orphans & Widows Fund Day at the Races!
[ 6/5/2009 ]


Sandhog Golf Outing!
[ 6/5/2009 ]

Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:00PM Catskill Golf Club, Catskill N.Y. Cost $100 Per Player, price includes golf, shirt, lunch and dinner. If interested contact: Richard Riodan-(917) 538-823 Pat Dunleavy-(845) 664-0547 Jimmy McCaffrey-(914) 906-1447 Jimmy McCluskey-(914) 497-5978 THIS IS FOR MEMBERS ALLOWING!!!


Sandhogs are going to the Big Screen!
[ 6/5/2009 ]


Stay Tuned for more Sandhogs!
[ 12/5/2008 ]

Mini Marathon


Welcome to the new website for Laborers’ Local Union No. 147!
[ 9/5/2008 ]

The leadership and members of Laborers’ Local Union No. 147 of the Laborers’ International Union of North America would like to welcome you to our newly designed website. On our site you can find out a great deal of information about our great local and international union.


Click Here to Watch Our History Channel Commercial!
[ 9/4/2008 ]

The commercial is airing throughout the Tri-State Area including five boroughs of Manhattan for all Time Warner Cable subscribers. Please tune in and watch our exciting commercial.


Big Apple's big dig
[ 7/29/2008 ]

New York is working hard to finish a massive tunnel project that got started in the 70's. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.


19 Stories Below Manhattan, a 640-Ton Machine Drills a New Train Tunnel
[ 7/17/2008 ]

Some 19 stories under the streets of Manhattan on Thursday, the driver of a 640-ton telescopic tunnel-boring machine stood in a tiny windowless metal cubicle before a pair of small computer screens and an array of buttons and gauges.


Take a Virtual Tour of the East Side Access Tunnel!
[ 7/17/2008 ]

In the Manhattan bedrock, 190 feet below street level, a 640-ton tunnel-boring machine has traveled more than 7,700 feet from 63rd Street and Second Avenue to 45th Street and Park Avenue. The tunnel is part of East Side Access, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $7.2 billion project to link the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal.

Welcome to The Sandhogs Local 147

Thank you for visiting the web site of Laborers' Local Union No. 147. The leadership and members of Local 147 hope this website will be both informative and insightful.

Local 147, maybe better known as the Sandhogs, are part of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). LIUNA is the most progressive, aggressive and fastest-growing union of construction workers, and one of the most diverse and effective unions representing over 800,000 men and women working towards better wages, benefits, safer jobsites, and more opportunity.

Members of Local 147 are Tunnel Diggers and can be found working on major projects throughout New York City. The Sandhogs have worked on projects starting with the Brooklyn Bridge, Lincoln, Holland, Queens-Midtown, and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnels, along with most of New York City's subways, waterways, and sewers.

We work on the foundations of the buildings and bridges you use every day. We are dedicated, highly trained, and skilled group of workers that helps New York City run.

Please take your time to peruse our site and see the wealth of information that is available. You can learn more About Us or the Training that makes us the highly skilled workers that we are. Thank You.