US EditionNYC Residential Building Workers Vote to Authorize Strike, Which Might Start Monday
The walkout could affect 1.5 million residents as workers press for higher pay, stronger benefits and better retirement security.
- Apartment building workers in New York City have voted to authorize a strike if ongoing contract negotiations do not result in an agreement.
- The vote gives union leaders the option to call a strike affecting residential building staff, including doormen and maintenance workers, as talks with employers continue.
- RAB president Howard Rothschild said the industry faces "mounting pressures" from rising costs and potential rent freezes on stabilized units. Union leaders argue average salaries of about $62,000 fail to keep pace with the city's rising cost of living.
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Residential building workers vote to strike over wage increases, healthcare benefits
Thousands of unionized doormen, porters, superintendents, handypersons and workers who keep the city’s residential buildings running smoothly, voted to authorize a strike Wednesday — all over contentious negotiations about a new union contract with building owners. The current contract expires April 20, and without major concessions from the Realty Advisory Board (RAB), which represents building owners in negotiations with the union 32BJ SEIU, r…
32BJ SEIU building workers prep their strike captains, rally on Park Ave
Leadership from 32BJ SEIU, the union that represents more than 34,000 NYC residential building workers, attended meetings in Manhattan, Queens, and downtown Brooklyn last week. They came together to coordinate efforts for an upcoming rally on April 15, and a possible full-blown strike set to start on April 20. Union organizers handed out posters announcing the rally and stickers for their 1,400 strike captains to wear, identifying them to fellow…
New York, Apr 15 (EFE).- Thousands of private housing building workers in New York issued a strike vote Wednesday with which their union, 32BJ, will return tomorrow to the negotiating table, in another attempt to reach an agreement to stop a new employment contract. Today the workers took a part of Park Avenue, between 79th and 80th streets in Manhattan, which closed the vehicle traffic to install a platform from which they heard Mayor Zohran Ma…
Union building workers authorize strike if deal isn't reached
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — With a rally call that echoed along Park Avenue, union building workers have authorized a strike if a satisfactory agreement cannot be reached. They work the doors, organize packages and keep the homes going for thousands of buildings around the city. Thousands of unionized New York City building workers are rallying [...]
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New York City apartment building workers authorize a possible strike as contract talks stall
Thousands of New York City apartment building doorpersons, superintendents and other workers voted to authorize a potential strike Wednesday after contract negotiations snagged over issues including health care and pensions.
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