32BJ SEIU Supports Closing of NYC Public Schools to Slow COVID-19 Spread
The following statement is attributable to Kyle Bragg, President of 32BJ SEIU: “We support Mayor de Blasio and the Department of Education in taking the incredibly difficult and unprecedented step to shut down New York City public schools starting tomorrow. Public schools offer vital services beyond their core mission of educating the city’s 1.1 […]
Amid Widening COVID-19 Crisis, Lawmakers Urge Approval of Healthy Terminals Act to Provide Airport Workers Access to Health Insurance
Novel CoronaVirus outbreak highlights the need to give frontline airport workers quality, affordable health insurance, elected leaders say QUEENS, NY—As 32BJ SEIU airport member leaders met near LaGuardia airport today to discuss their fight for healthcare, city and state elected leaders held a tele-news conference to talk about the urgent need to pass the […]
Fast Food Workers Walk Out to Demand Chipotle Stop Making Them Work Sick Amid Concerns of Growing COVID-19 Outbreak
In a series of actions this week, Chipotle workers are telling their employer they want to be able to follow federal guidelines to prevent spread of Coronavirus without facing retaliation NEW YORK—As public concerns increase over COVID-19 outbreak nationally and in New York, Chipotle workers and their supporters walked out on Friday from a midtown […]
Amid Widening COVID-19 Concerns, NY Elected Officials Call For Health Care Now for Frontline Airport Workers
Councilmembers call on state to protect airport workers from impacts of Coronavirus outbreak, demanding workers get quality, affordable health insurance now. QUEENS, NY—Scores of SEIU 32BJ members who work at New York airports joined New York City Council Members today in urging state lawmakers to urgently approve a law to provide workers at JFK and […]
SEIU 32BJ Endorses Candidates for 2020 elections in New York
NEW YORK, NY— The members of SEIU 32BJ, the largest property services union in the country, today announced endorsements for 16 members of Congress, 37 members of the NY State Senate and 85 members of the State Assembly. Most of the candidates supported by the union are incumbents. “Our members are focused on candidates who […]
32BJ SEIU New York Security Members Open Bargaining on Contract Renewal for 14,000 Officers
— Workers Fight to Improve Wages and Benefits, Protect Employer-Paid Health Insurance and Other Industry Gains— NEW YORK—Elected bargaining committees representing 14,000 security officers who protect major public and private buildings around New York City and are members of SEIU 32BJ will sit across from employers today at union headquarters in the first of […]
New York City Council to Hold Hearing Today on ‘Just Cause’ Bill to Protect Fast Food Workers from Unfair Job Loss
Fast Food workers says employers fire them for no reason at all or arbitrary ones, turning their lives upside down NEW YORK— Fast food workers are coming to the New York City Council today to urge council members to approve two proposed bills to give them “Just Cause” protection from arbitrary reduction in work […]
32BJ Commends Gov. Cuomo for Signing Bill to Lift Wages for Utility Workers
The following statement may be attributed to Kyle Bragg, President 32BJ SEIU: “We commend Governor Cuomo for signing a bill that would lift wages for low-wage workers at monopoly utility companies like ConEdison. For the men and women who clean and secure New York State’s critical infrastructure, this bill will provide a path towards […]
New Study Says Chipotle Management Presses Workers to Work Sick and Skip Food Safety Practices, Creating Health Risks for Consumers
“The Unsavory side of ‘Food with Integrity.’ ” report details management practices that lead to worker abuses and call into question protocols Chipotle put in place after recent food safety crises New York — After dozens of outbreaks of food borne illness incidents over the past four years, Chipotle gave lip service to reforms […]
Newark Airport Workers Tell Trenton Lawmakers: We Need Health Care that Won’t Cause a Crisis for Us
32BJ SEIU says providing a way for airport workers to get quality, affordable health insurance is the union’s 2020 legislative priority TRENTON, N.J. — Yvette Stevens, a baggage claim attendant at Newark Liberty International Airport, has been calling on lawmakers to act on a crisis at one of the nation’s busiest transit hubs: workers’ access […]