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 […]

STRIKE AVERTED: 32BJ SEIU PHILLY SCHOOL WORKERS REACH CONTRACT AGREEMENT

PHILADELPHIA – 32BJ SEIU Philadelphia School Workers announced today that they have reached a tentative agreement that achieves historic wage increases for the union’s membership in what will be the first post-pandemic contract between the two sides. The tentative agreement was reached before the expiration of the current contract on August 31, averting a strike […]

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 […]

CO-OP CITY 32BJ SEIU BUILDING WORKERS RATIFY NEW POST-PANDEMIC CONTRACT

NEW YORK, NY – 32BJ SEIU building workers at CO-OP City voted overwhelmingly Friday, June 10, to ratify a new contract that provides a 12.47% wage increase over four years. The new contract with the Riverbay Corporation achieves excellent wins for nearly 500 building service workers at CO-OP City, the nation’s largest affordable housing cooperative. […]

32BJ SEIU BUILDING WORKERS WIN HISTORIC FIRST POST-PANDEMIC CONTRACT

Deal must be ratified by 32BJ membership, and includes historic pay raises, bonuses, no healthcare premium sharing, maintains sick leave and vacation benefits, continues funding for health, training and retirement Tentative agreement includes the highest pay raises in the history of 32BJ SEIU NEW YORK – 32BJ SEIU building workers and the Realty Advisory Board […]