The blackmailers are alleged to have been property developers seeking favourable construction contracts from influential city officials.
Unite said the eight companies, which have construction contracts with the two refineries, plan to dismiss employees before re-engaging them on new contracts.
Mohammed Al-Amoudi, the son of a Saudi father and Ethiopian mother, made his initial fortune by cornering lucrative construction contracts in Saudi Arabia.
In 2005, a Paris court imposed a suspended sentence of 15 months on Drut for taking money from fictitious jobs linked to public construction contracts from 1990-92.
Worse, there is a long tradition of interference in the managerial decisions of Pemex, of politicians appointing friends to plum jobs in the company, and of construction contracts being handed out to favoured firms.
Aware of the potential of her project but unable to finance it she applied to a government tender scheme that allows small businesses or individuals to bid for one-off jobs with public bodies, such as cleaning or construction contracts.
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The branch, which is called Suishinkai, specialised in construction graft on public contracts.
Mr Bourne and his party members concentrated their line of questioning on figures that revealed that only 0.01% of contracts for the construction of the Olympics have been awarded to Welsh companies.
Buyers say the practice of using deposits for construction was highlighted in most sales contracts, but they didn't expect the projects to grind to a halt.
"In signing the contracts to proceed with construction of the NBAF's Central Utility Plant, DHS is confirming their commitment to moving forward with construction of the laboratory facility itself, " Brownback said in a release.
Moreover, more than a quarter of its 26 corporate shareholders are construction firms with hopes of winning lucrative contracts.
But, as attention has focused on accounting standards, concerns have been raised in particular about how support services firms treat the large costs run up bidding for public private partnership contracts, such as hospital construction projects.
An American construction company, Acrow, is angling for contracts beyond the capital.
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As there is no global market for gas, the construction of costly pipelines effectively locks consumers into lengthy contracts with producers.
Contracts also have been awarded for 14 new-construction ships.
Employer-clients like Boeing, Citigroup, Pfizer and Microsoft sign contracts in which they agree to pay everything from construction costs to ongoing maintenance in return for on-site child care services for their employees' children. (Often, these employer "sponsors" will also subsidize the parents' tuition.) Under certain "cost-plus" contracts, the employer-sponsors will even shoulder some of the care center's risk in exchange for more control of the operations.
The scandal concerns contracts for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a dam construction venture which has been partly funded by the World Bank.
As a former boss of Hyundai Construction, he has first-hand experience both of vying for contracts in the Gulf and of building nuclear plants.
Nevertheless, its building arm makes it a more effective bidder on PFI contracts, which are the meat and drink of big construction firms in Britain.
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The union claims construction companies plan to dismiss staff and re-employ them on new contracts with lower wages.
In exchange, Mr Nagin helped Fradella secure millions of dollars in contracts from the city in the wake of Katrina, including construction at the airport and sidewalk repair projects, prosecutors said.
As part of the legal team involved in construction of the World Trade Center, she had become an expert in public contracts.
Eight international construction companies have been charged with bribery in Lesotho after they allegedly paid bribes to win contracts for a multi-million dollar dam project.
Other big construction groups like Carillion, Alfred McAlpine and Laing are reinventing themselves to take advantage of the PFI contracts as are service companies like Capita, Serco and Amey.
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