To: Susan Ansel, Chief Executive Officer, Benjamin Pisklak, Chief Investment Officer, Jennifer Wiebrand, Development Director, and C. Stephen Cordes, Board Chairman
Tell Gables Residential to Build it Better: Ensure Good, Safe Jobs
Gables: workers have reported widespread cases of abuse at your construction sites, including over $140,000 in wage theft and unsafe working conditions. Please agree to Build it Better and improve the lives of thousands of workers and their families!
Why is this important?
Gables Residential is a prominent developer of luxury apartments in the Southern United States. We need help exposing how construction workers on numerous Gables projects have reported widespread cases of abuse, including:
• Not being paid for their work – over $130,000 in wage theft
• Denial of legally mandated rest breaks
• Unpaid overtime and unsafe working conditions
We need you to help us fight back. Workers Defense Project is asking that Gables becomes a Better Builder by ensuring that construction workers who help build their luxury apartments receive a living wage, have safe working conditions, and are able to earn a rewarding career in the industry.
Gables has the opportunity to become an industry leader by investing in the workers who have labored tirelessly to help make Gables Residential profitable. We are asking Gables to take this opportunity to improve the lives of thousands of workers.
Workers Defense Project (WDP) is a nationally recognized organization, which fights to improve the poor conditions in the construction industry. We have been acknowledged by The New York Times as “one of the nation’s most creative organizations for immigrant workers” and have recovered over $1 million in stolen wages for workers.
WDP has signed landmark agreements with developers, which combine expanded safety protections and living wage requirements to improve working conditions. We are asking Gables to join these other developers in ensuring good, safe jobs for thousands of workers.