— Strike Could Directly Affect More Than One Million New Yorkers —
New York, NY – April 1, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — More than two thousand New York City apartment building workers will vote Thursday on empowering their bargaining committee with the authority to call a strike. Failure to reach a new contract by April 20, 2010, could cause a strike of more than 30,000 apartment building workers at over 3,200 residential buildings throughout the city. Thursday’s vote comes on the heels of similar votes in Queens last night and Brooklyn tonight.
Contract negotiations between 32BJ SEIU and the Realty Advisory Board (RAB), an industry association representing most building owners, have been underway since March 9th. The contract covers doormen, superintendents, resident managers, porters, handymen and concierges working at apartment buildings throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
WHAT:
NYC Doormen and Apartment Building Workers Strike Vote
WHO:
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other Manhattan elected officials
32BJ President Mike Fishman
32BJ Vice President for Residential Building Service Workers Kyle Bragg
Hundreds of NYC apartment building workers
WHEN:
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 5 p.m.
WHERE:
Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, 2nd Floor
811 7th Avenue on 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
NOTE:
The voting process is closed to the press, but interviews can be arranged on site.
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/
