New York, NY – Today, April 13th, an estimated 10,000 building services essential workers, including 32BJ SEIU members from New York to Washington, D.C. to Miami, rallied on Park Avenue with supporters to demand that the Real Estate Advisory Board (RAB) agree to a new contract for 32,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, concierges and handypersons across …
“After persevering through an unprecedented pandemic and playing a pivotal role in keeping New York City moving in spite of it, the contract covering over 32,000 porters, door attendants, superintendents, concierges and handypersons across the five boroughs is set to expire on April 20, 2022. These positions are essential in New York to maintain buildings …
Cambridge, MA—On Friday, December 17–in a major victory for the essential workers who keep the richest University in the world running each and every day–Harvard custodians voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first new contract with the University since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The strong four-year agreement—which Harvard and the bargaining committee tentatively settled on …
Versión en español por abajo STRIKE AVERTED: NY/NJ Airport Workers Ratify New Contract The newly ratified contract includes improved health & safety regulations and discrimination protections; thousands received healthcare on July 1 New York — After negotiations that lasted over three months, a committee representing more than 10,000 mostly-Black and immigrant airport workers across John …
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32BJ SEIU & the Maintenance Contractors of New England Sign Contract Extension during Justice for Janitors Week Essential Workers & their Employers Reach Hopeful Milestone As Mass. State of Emergency Expires *Interviews with members and leadership available upon request* Boston, MA.–On Wednesday—a day after Massachusetts’ state of emergency officially expired and weeks after Governor Baker …
Jersey City, NJ – Residential workers at a condo high-rise with million-dollar apartments walked off the job this morning on a strike to protest the condo board’s bad faith bargaining in the middle of a pandemic. “We understand that, as essential workers, the residents of the building need us to keep them safe and …
New York, NY – Residential workers at two high-end buildings in the West Side of Manhattan who are employees of Planned companies, a building services contractor, walked off the job on Thursday morning, taking the unprecedented step to strike while the COVID-19 pandemic rages through the city. Almost a dozen workers from the Upper West Side …
— 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 …
Deal boosts wages, protects benefits, and improves workplace rules for 3,000 cleaners in large commercial buildings STAMFORD, Conn. — Four days before the expiration of their current union contract, hundreds of commercial building cleaners unanimously voted to approve a new agreement at meetings in Port Chester, NY, this morning and Stamford, CT, this afternoon. The …
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Deal includes fair wage increase & protects health benefits for 3,000 janitors STAMFORD, Conn. — In a Stamford Marriott meeting room this afternoon, a union bargaining committee representing over 3,000 janitors in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and the lower Hudson Valley, New York, reached a tentative contract agreement with an industry group representing cleaning contractors and …
