–Contract Expires on April 20th–
New York, NY – March 29, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — With no sign of a new contract, apartment building workers in Queens will vote Tuesday on empowering their bargaining committee with the authority to call a strike. Failure to reach a new contract by April 20, 2010 could lead to a strike of 3,500 apartment building workers at more than 550 buildings throughout Queens.
Contract negotiations between 32BJ SEIU and the Realty Advisory Board (RAB), an industry association representing most building owners, have been underway since March 9, for more than 30,000 New York City apartment building workers. The contract includes doormen, superintendents, resident managers, porters, handymen and concierge working at apartment buildings throughout Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island. A strike could directly affect more than one million New Yorkers living in apartment buildings, co ops and condominiums.
WHAT: Queens’ Apartment Building Workers Strike Vote
WHO: Hundreds of Queens apartment building workers
32BJ President Mike Fishman
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and other Queens
elected officials
WHEN: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Elmhurst Memorial League 88-24 43rd Ave., Elmhurst Queens
NOTE: The voting process is closed to the press, but interviews
can be arranged onsite
With more than 120,000 members, 32BJ is the largest property service workers union in the country. For more information, visit
http://www.standwithbuildingworkers.org/press
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Kwame Abasi Patterson
Communications Department
32BJ SEIU
Work (212)388-3676
Cell (312)371-2485
www.seiu32bj.org
http://www.standwithbuildingworkers.org/press/
