Despite commercial real estate challenges, building owners reached a new agreement with Philly janitors and building workers, who had said they'd be willing to strike.
32BJ SEIU union members cheered at the announcement of a new contract deal that averted a strike outside Chestnut Street's First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia on Friday.The union that represents 2,000 workers who clean and maintain most of Philadelphia’s commercial buildings ratified a new contract Friday improving pay and benefits, despite significant economic challenges facing the building owners who employ them.
Their employers — including hundreds of building owners, owner representatives, and building managers — were represented by the Building Operators Labor Relations . “We look forward to continuing to work cooperatively and constructively with Local 32BJ and promoting Center City’s resurgence,” Brighter said.
The recovery rate for nonresident workers who commute to Center City is at about 65% of pre-pandemic levels, according to a, using data from Placer.ai. In the same report, Center City District, a business advocacy group, estimated that nearly half of all jobs in Philadelphia can be done from home, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau., and many new residential buildings are employing nonunion cleaners who make poverty-level wages, said Gabe Morgan, executive vice president of SEIU 32BJ.
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