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Some 270,000 building workers are now employed on social-housing schemes, up from 145,000 a year ago.

MILLIONS of Chinese building workers are leaving the cities and heading back to their villages to celebrate the start of the Year of the Goat.

Real estate officials often say that only a modest wage increase is justified because the local's apartment building workers are the highest paid in the country.

Yet District Council 37's political clout remains debatable, especially since other unions, including those that represent teachers, health care workers, hotel workers and building workers, are much more coveted because they are considered to be more influential and better organized politically.

One can but dream... Opimian says: I was talking to a small builder recently (sole trader, not small in stature) and his complaint was not about the planning system but that the banks are not lending money for building projects and as a result thousands of building workers are either unemployed or under-employed.

The Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations, which represents management, says New York City's building workers are the highest paid in the country.

He also argued that the city's building workers were the nation's highest paid because by many measures New York has the nation's highest living costs.

ON A warm summer morning earlier this month, dozens of building workers were putting the finishing touches to the restoration of Casa Moreyra, a 17th-century colonial manor house in San Isidro, the business district of Lima, Peru's capital.

In the early 1900s, before building workers were unionized, apartment houses would hire janitors and their wives in a two-for-one deal, paying the couples $20 to $50 a week and often giving them a basement room next to the coal chute.

Inside Quanta's building, workers weren't answering many questions.

To fund construction of the building, workers were paid 20% of their salary in MLG stock.