Investor Alert: Irresponsible Conduct by Real Estate Investor Carmel Partners Results in Labor Dispute
April 8, 2025 SEIU 32BJ alerts investors, and potential investors, of risk resulting from irresponsible conduct by real estate firm Carmel Partners. Carmel, a multi-family residential developer and investor, acts as managing owner of The Sudbury, a luxury building located at 100 Sudbury Street in Downtown Boston. The Carmel Fund XIII holds a controlling stake […]
BREAKING: Second Manhattan Residential Tower in Two Weeks Hit With Workers’ Strike Over Unfair Labor Practices
New York, NY – Today at 8AM, six workers who run the luxury condo building at 56 Pine Street went out on strike to protest their employer’s unilateral reduction in staff – with impacts on workload and workers’ ability to take breaks – without bargaining with workers and their union. Their union, 32BJ SEIU, filed […]
BREAKING: Workers on Strike at Luxury Manhattan Condo After Health Benefits Cut During Bargaining for First Union Contract
‘We are united and ready to fight’ New York, NY – Today at 7AM, six workers who run the luxury Jardim condo building on 527 West 27th St. went out on a 24-hour strike to protest their employer’s unilateral cancellation of workers’ health insurance in December without notice. Their union, 32BJ SEIU, has filed […]
Employers Threaten Healthcare and Bargaining Power of 2,400 Bronx Residential Building Service Workers
Workers will rally on March 8 where they will vote on a resolution to authorize a strike if necessary. Their current contract expires March 14. New York, NY – Thousands of door-people, handy-persons, porters and superintendents who sacrificed to keep Bronx families safe during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are now fighting to […]
BABCO BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS IN JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN STRIKE TO PROTEST YEAR PLUS OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
JUSTICE FOR JAVIER! BABCO BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS IN JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN STRIKE TO PROTEST YEAR PLUS OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES Workers allege Babco Service LLC engaged in unfair labor practices at worksites, including “unfair” termination of Javier Amador Strikers have the support of political and community allies Jersey City, New Jersey—Babco building services workers […]
Strike Averted, 1,400 Hudson Valley 32BJ SEIU Residential Building Workers Win Post-Pandemic Contract
Deal must be ratified by 32BJ membership, protects healthcare benefits, full time jobs and overtime SCARSDALE, NY – Today, 32BJ SEIU and the Building & Realty Institute of Westchester & the Mid-Hudson Region (BRI) reached a tentative agreement, averting a strike of 1,400 residential building workers in the Hudson Valley. The tentative agreement […]
Hudson Valley Building Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
SCARSDALE, NY – Today, September 20th, an estimated 500 building services essential workers, members of 32BJ SEIU, rallied on Garth Road in Scarsdale to demand the Building & Realty Institute of Westchester & the Mid-Hudson Region (BRI) agree to a new contract for 1,400 door-people, porters, handy-people and superintendents across the Hudson Valley that includes […]
Contract Talks Begin for 31,000 New York City Apartment Building Workers
New York, NY–Negotiations for a new, multi-year contract begin 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 31,000 doormen and women, superintendents, resident managers, handypersons, concierges and porters working at apartment buildings throughout Manhattan, […]
32BJ SEIU ESSENTIAL BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS RALLY AND AUTHORIZE BARGAINING COMMITEE TO CALL FOR A STRIKE
Images: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QhPKtM9yBEvCcwAjX24KSvTMjZaQ_3i6?usp=sharing Fort Lee, NJ – Today, July 20th, an estimated 82 essential building service workers from Horizon House, with the support of several members from New Jersey and New York, agreed to authorize a strike in case the Horizon House Board of Directors do not agree to a new contract for all porters, doorpersons, […]
Residential Building Workers across Long Island Ratify New Union Contract
UNIONDALE — Late Wednesday afternoon, members of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union voted to ratify a new four-year agreement on their wages, benefits and working conditions as superintendents, handymen and women, porters and other building service workers for tens of thousands of Long Island residents in apartment buildings and condos. The contract covers […]