NEW YORK: Apartment building workers voted overwhelmingly Monday to ratify a new contract that provides a 11.3% wage increase over four years. The pact maintains existing health care coverage and retirement benefits and contains no give-backs for 30,000 doormen, supers, porters and handypersons who are members of 32BJ SEIU. “I am very happy that we […]

NEW YORK—To herald their demands for better pay and benefits, dignity, respect and a voice in the workplace, leading delegates of contracted New York area airports passenger service workers declared today that they and thousands of their co-workers have chosen 32BJ SEIU as their union. The workers say they are now ready to fight for

New York, NY – Despite the pouring rain, hundreds of 32BJ members were joined by elected officials and community activists in a rally in City Hall to demand Equal Pay for Equal Work for the 5,000 school cleaners and handypersons who maintain schools healthy and safe for more than one million public school children in

NEW YORK – 32BJ SEIU and the Realty Advisory Board reached a tentative agreement Friday that would provide 11.3% raises over four years and maintain health care and retirement benefits. If ratified by the members, the contract would cover 30,000 doormen, porters, handypersons and supers in 3,300 buildings throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.

NEW YORK—New York area airports workers rekindled the spirit of historical civil rights marches today with a 10-mile trek from Kennedy airport up to a LaGuardia Airport bridge where on Jan. 20, 2014, Martin Luther King Day, 32 protesters were arrested for civil disobedience. The workers began a countdown to April 28, the expiration date

New York, NY – Thousands of 32BJ members were joined by union leaders, elected officials and community activists in a march on Park Avenue to demand a fair contract for the 30,000 doormen and women, superintendents, resident managers, handypersons, concierges and porters who work in 3,300 buildings throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The massive rally

New York, NY–Today was the second bargaining session for a new, multi-year contract between the Realty Advisory Board (RAB), an industry association representing most building owners in New York City and 32BJ SEIU, the largest private sector union in New York. The contract covers 30,000 doormen and women, superintendents, resident managers, handypersons, concierges and porters

New York, NY–Negotiations for a new, multi-year contract began today between the Realty Advisory Board (RAB), an industry association representing most building owners in New York City and 32BJ SEIU, the largest private sector union in New York. The contract covers 30,000 doormen and women, superintendents, resident managers, handypersons, concierges and porters working at apartment buildings throughout Manhattan,

NEW YORK — More than 100 workers, community members and local elected officials marched to the lobby of a luxury High Line building Thursday evening. Assembly Member Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) called the co-op board chair Michael Walsh to request a meeting to discuss the right of the building’s doormen and concierges to organize a union

“Mayor de Blasio is clearly committed to following through on his campaign promise to make this city livable for all New Yorkers,” said Héctor Figueroa, president of 32BJ. “Fighting for local control for minimum wage rates, requiring prevailing wage for all major economic developments, halting the challenge to living wage legislation, providing municipal IDs for