New York, NY–Negotiations for a new, multi-year contract began 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 30,000 doormen and women, superintendents, resident managers, handypersons, concierges and porters working at apartment buildings throughout Manhattan, […]

NEW YORK — More than 100 workers, community members and local elected officials marched to the lobby of a luxury High Line building Thursday evening. Assembly Member Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) called the co-op board chair Michael Walsh to request a meeting to discuss the right of the building’s doormen and concierges to organize a union

“Mayor de Blasio is clearly committed to following through on his campaign promise to make this city livable for all New Yorkers,” said Héctor Figueroa, president of 32BJ. “Fighting for local control for minimum wage rates, requiring prevailing wage for all major economic developments, halting the challenge to living wage legislation, providing municipal IDs for

NEW YORK (Jan. 29)—In a strongly worded letter, Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye today told major airlines that his agency will insist on improved wages and benefits packages for contracted passenger service workers as requirements in all leases at New York City airports. “As I wrote before, the Port Authority is prepared to use