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Melissa King Sentenced
[10/11/2012]
Melissa King, 60, the disgraced administrator for Sandhogs Local 147, was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday. Click the headline to learn more.

Congratulations to:
[9/10/2010]
Congratulations to: Megan O'Donnell for being selected the recipient of Local 147 Dennis Devlin Memorial scholarship fun. And also to Claire McGuire for being selected the recipient of the Local 147 Richard E. Fitzsimmons Memorial schorlarship fund.

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.

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.