New York City – Concourse Village workers, tenants and hundreds of their supporters rallied outside the apartment complex this afternoon to protest the co-op board’s proposed four-year wage freeze for their maintenance staff. Though the contract expired in 2011, workers and their union, 32BJ SEIU, have bargained in good faith with the co-op board for the […]

New York, NY—32BJ SEIU and other leading immigrant advocates have been fighting for a path to citizenship for 11 million aspiring Americans for years, and now is finally the time to pass a law that fixes our country’s broken immigration system once and for all.  This bill is not what we would have crafted. The

NEW YORK—Hundreds of service workers at apartment buildings across the city protested at three sites in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens today, because they said employers were stiffing them out of wages and benefits mandated by a law granting luxury buildings tax exemptions. Close to half of the buildings that are receiving tax exemptions through the

New York – Dozens of porters and handypersons working for Concourse Village residents in the Bronx and their supporters rallied Thursday afternoon to call for a fair contract. Workers and their union, 32BJ SEIU, have bargained in good faith with the apartment complex’s co-op board since the contract expired in 2011 to no avail. Though willing

NEW YORK, NY—Airlines and terminal operators including JFK International Air Terminal, which owns and operates Terminal 4, broke promises to create good jobs at the John F. Kennedy International Airport while getting nearly $3 billion for terminal expansions and improvements since 2002, airport service workers and Southeast Queens residents charged at a raucous JFK rally

NEW YORK (MAY 20, 2013) — Labor leaders, workers and elected officials today slammed Con Edison for its shabby treatment of contracted security guards and cleaners at a press conference and rally outside the utility’s Union Square headquarters in Manhattan. “Con Ed has a long history of being a bad actor,” Kyle Bragg, secretary-treasurer of

QUEENS, N.Y. (May 16, 2013) – Elected officials, clergy and Southeast Queens residents  tonight called for community input and fair treatment of sub-contracted workers as JFK Airport expands and Delta Airlines renovates a major terminal. “I read in the paper the other day that Delta Airlines is doing quite well these days, that it is

NEW YORK, NY – A newly-introduced plan to repair the nation’s broken immigration system is a welcome breakthrough that could bring 11 million people out of the shadows, unify American families and stabilize our communities, members and officers of 32BJ SEIU said today. “It makes us all stronger,” said 32BJ member Juliana Peters, a commercial

More than a hundred supporters joined a protest rally today in front of a Park Slope luxury apartment complex to demand that the building’s service workers, who say they were fired in retaliation for their union activities, be rehired. Service workers at Arias Park Slope–a 95-unit rental property at 150 4th Avenue, Brooklyn where monthly

  New York – As onlookers cheered, supporters of commonsense immigration reform from 32BJ SEIU took over Times Square Wednesday morning with a card stunt to spotlight the growing urgency for immediate federal action. “The Time Is Now:  We Are America” was the message seen by thousands of passers-by and window-gazers from high above the