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New England Patriots [team stats] QB/QT - and fledgling real estate flipper - Tom Brady [stats] is under fire by the Plumbers & Gasfitters Union who want their brothers on the job at Brady?s Beacon Street rehab installing all of the bowls - Super or otherwise!
?We?re not going to any Pats games until he builds union,? said Francis Jensen of Local 12, who with about a half-dozen of his brethren threw up an informational picket line in front of No. 12?s Back Bay condo yesterday.
Added union captain Tom Koney: ?Here?s a guy who gets paid millions for what he does but he doesn?t believe in paying plumbers a decent wage.?
The picket line was aimed at flushing out Tom?s plumbing contractor A&K Plumbing of Revere which, the plumbers say, doesn?t pay the ?established community standard? wage of $61.75 an hour plus benefits and does not employ any women or minorities. A&K was put in the Brady pipeline by the general contractor, Boston?s Metric Corp.
Metric president Geoffre Karaboolad said he would have been happy to hire union plumbers for the Brady job but none contacted him during the bidding process.
?They contacted us half-way through the project when the whole thing had been rough-plumbed and all the fixtures bought, and it would have been crazy to switch plumbing contractors at that time,? he said.
Karaboolad said he has used union plumbers on bigger projects in the past and is using union electrical contractors at Brady?s place.
?All of the obligations to hire any of the workers are ours, and we did not confer with Tom about who to hire,? he said.
But the plumbers say that Brady was aware of their pipe gripes because they sent a letter to the two-time Super Bowl MVP?s agents before throwing up the picket line, and they never heard anything back.
?Our members are great Patriots supporters, and we didn?t want to embarrass him,? Cotter said. ?But we are disappointed he didn?t respond.?
Cotter said Local 12 has a special place in their hearts for No. 12 - natch - and feel that the lack of response was a ?slap in the face.?
?He?s in the union himself and you know he?s not waiting in food lines,? said business agent George Donahue. ?You would think he would be more respectful of the building and trade unions in the city of Boston.?
Pats spokesman Stacey James said he couldn?t reach Brady for comment.
Tom, as you may know, bought the 5,000-square-foot, multi-unit townhouse on Beacon Street for $6.7 million a year ago and reportedly plans to spend $3 million renovating it.
Word is, he will take the top two floors and chi-chi roof deck for himself and sell the middle unit. A basement condo and studio will also reportedly go on the block, although there is talk that he may give one unit to his sister.
Tom?s current digs - a three-bedroom, 3 -bath flat in the historic Burrage House - is under agreement to be sold for something in the neighborhood of $6 million. Nice neighborhood! (Brady paid $4.2 million for the 10-room pad in 2004.)
His new digs - an 1871 townhouse with big bow windows - won?t be ready for months. So Brady may need to rent a crash pad in the meantime. But since he?s spending much quality time in the Big Apple with his supermodel galpal Gisele Bundchen, his living situation won?t become an issue until training camp starts.
But hey, there?s always the fabulous End Zone Motel on scenic Route 1!!!
http://thetrack.bostonherald.c...id=1008630&format=text
?We?re not going to any Pats games until he builds union,? said Francis Jensen of Local 12, who with about a half-dozen of his brethren threw up an informational picket line in front of No. 12?s Back Bay condo yesterday.
Added union captain Tom Koney: ?Here?s a guy who gets paid millions for what he does but he doesn?t believe in paying plumbers a decent wage.?
The picket line was aimed at flushing out Tom?s plumbing contractor A&K Plumbing of Revere which, the plumbers say, doesn?t pay the ?established community standard? wage of $61.75 an hour plus benefits and does not employ any women or minorities. A&K was put in the Brady pipeline by the general contractor, Boston?s Metric Corp.
Metric president Geoffre Karaboolad said he would have been happy to hire union plumbers for the Brady job but none contacted him during the bidding process.
?They contacted us half-way through the project when the whole thing had been rough-plumbed and all the fixtures bought, and it would have been crazy to switch plumbing contractors at that time,? he said.
Karaboolad said he has used union plumbers on bigger projects in the past and is using union electrical contractors at Brady?s place.
?All of the obligations to hire any of the workers are ours, and we did not confer with Tom about who to hire,? he said.
But the plumbers say that Brady was aware of their pipe gripes because they sent a letter to the two-time Super Bowl MVP?s agents before throwing up the picket line, and they never heard anything back.
?Our members are great Patriots supporters, and we didn?t want to embarrass him,? Cotter said. ?But we are disappointed he didn?t respond.?
Cotter said Local 12 has a special place in their hearts for No. 12 - natch - and feel that the lack of response was a ?slap in the face.?
?He?s in the union himself and you know he?s not waiting in food lines,? said business agent George Donahue. ?You would think he would be more respectful of the building and trade unions in the city of Boston.?
Pats spokesman Stacey James said he couldn?t reach Brady for comment.
Tom, as you may know, bought the 5,000-square-foot, multi-unit townhouse on Beacon Street for $6.7 million a year ago and reportedly plans to spend $3 million renovating it.
Word is, he will take the top two floors and chi-chi roof deck for himself and sell the middle unit. A basement condo and studio will also reportedly go on the block, although there is talk that he may give one unit to his sister.
Tom?s current digs - a three-bedroom, 3 -bath flat in the historic Burrage House - is under agreement to be sold for something in the neighborhood of $6 million. Nice neighborhood! (Brady paid $4.2 million for the 10-room pad in 2004.)
His new digs - an 1871 townhouse with big bow windows - won?t be ready for months. So Brady may need to rent a crash pad in the meantime. But since he?s spending much quality time in the Big Apple with his supermodel galpal Gisele Bundchen, his living situation won?t become an issue until training camp starts.
But hey, there?s always the fabulous End Zone Motel on scenic Route 1!!!
http://thetrack.bostonherald.c...id=1008630&format=text
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