32BJ SEIU Condemns Court’s Decision to Allow End to TPS
The following statement may be attributed to Kyle Bragg, President 32BJ SEIU: “It is deeply disturbing, and frankly enraging, that the Ninth Circuit is allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, opening the prospect of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people who have made the […]
Essential Workers Outraged by Inaction from the Senate and Executive Order PR Stunt from Trump ‘Our Lives Depend on Voting them out in November’
(New York, NY) – After risking their lives to keep people safe and our economy moving for six months, with no end in sight, 32BJ’s essential workers slammed Senate Republicans’ and President Trump for devaluing their work and lives by denying them hazard pay and refusing to pass the HEROES Act. Frontline cleaners, security officers, […]
Senator Biaggi, Assembly Member Hyndman, Queens Leaders & Hazel Dukes Join Essential Airport Workers in Celebrating Passage of Health Care Bill
While the U.S. Senate fails to protect essential workers in stimulus, New York passes ‘Healthy Terminals Act’ to Bring Health Care to as many as 25,000 Essential Frontline Workers (New York, NY) State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, Assembly Member Alicia Hyndman, and NY NAACP President Hazel Dukes joined Queens elected officials and 32BJ airport workers to celebrate the passage of […]
32BJ SEIU Condemns Census Memo
The following statement may be attributed to Kyle Bragg, President 32BJ SEIU: “President Trump’s unprecedented call to ban the counting of undocumented immigrants in the census is another attempt to divide this country by race and region and undermine its founding motto, ‘from many, one.’ The proposal so blatantly contradicts the Constitution’s mandate that Congress […]
Airport Workers—Majority Black and Immigrant—on Path to Win Health Care as NY State Legislature Passes Historic Bill
NY’s ‘Healthy Terminals Act’ to Bring Health Care to as many as 25,000 Essential Frontline Workers (ALBANY NY) As many as 25,000 airport workers, including predominantly Black and immigrant wheelchair attendants, security officers, cabin and terminal cleaners, and other sub-contracted airport workers at JFK and LaGuardia Airports are a signature from the Governor away from winning life-saving health care benefits. After a long, […]
32BJ SEIU Endorses Joe Biden for President
32BJ Members: Joe Biden has the experience, character, compassion, steady leadership to tackle the challenges before us and lead us to a better future. New York—32BJ of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today endorsed Joe Biden for president, calling him a leader with a plan to make it easier for millions of workers […]
Majority-Immigrant Union Applauds Supreme Court DACA Decision
The following statement may be attributed to Kyle Bragg, President 32BJ SEIU: “As one of the largest unions in the nation with majority-immigrant membership, we applaud the Supreme Court decision today to uphold the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA. By stopping President Trump’s attempt to end the […]
32BJ SEIU on Voter Suppression in Georgia
The following statement is attributable to Kyle Bragg, President of 32BJ SEIU, the largest property service workers union in the country, representing a majority Black and immigrant workforce: “As a majority of Americans unite behind the fight for racial justice, rampant voter suppression is turning back the clocks and dragging our nation back to the […]
NYC Labor Leaders Call on Governor, Mayor, and Police Commissioner to Put a Stop to Police Brutality
The systemic assault on the Black body has gone on for far too long—400 years and counting. We are outraged and heartbroken over the police murder of George Floyd, just as we were at the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland […]
Mitch Ditches Tele-Town Hall with Smithfield Meat Plant Workers, School Custodians and Food Service Workers
Louisville, KY – As the White House and Senate Republicans push for a quick reopening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) failed to join a Thursday evening tele-town hall and address concerns from Kentucky service workers who are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) and KY […]