Many of these workers are employed in buildings in an area that is home to many of New York’s wealthiest residents.
Thousands of porters, doorpersons, superintendents, concierges, and handypersons with SEIU Local 32BJ gathered on Park Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday for a rally to demand a fair contract. These essential residential workers are currently in contract negotiations with the Real Estate Advisory Board and are demanding wage increases and fully employer-paid health insurance for their families.
The workers also raised the slogan of “no givebacks,” in response to bosses demanding they pay into their own health insurance and take cuts to paid time off. These workers deserve what they have already — and far more. Indeed, these essential workers, who are predominantly Black and Brown, were on the front lines throughout the pandemic, putting their own and their community’s lives at risk every day. Ironically, many of them work in buildings on Billionaire’s Row, the area at the southern end of Central Park that’s home to many of New York’s wealthiest residents.
The union contract covers superintendents, porters, handymen, concierges, and door attendants in properties owned by several landlords represented under the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations. The board has properties in Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. The last doorman strike in New York City was in 1991. Now, like many other workers in the United States, they’re demanding a wage increase “at least” tied to inflation, which in New York City sitsThese workers have the ability to unite their struggles with other sectors. They’re natural allies of the tenants who are fighting against landlord abuses in a city with an acute housing crisis, and againstThese workers also have natural allies amongst essential workers as a whole.
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