New York Office cleaners and the owner of the building reached a tentative four-year labor agreement Friday night, avoiding the attack potential new year’s day.
The agreement, which covers more than 22,000 cleaners Office New York City who represented by 32BJ service employees International Union local, will give the cleansers improve wages of almost 6 percent over the life of the contract. Each worker will also receive bonus cash completely $ 1,100. The contract, Member States should ratify, maintain employer-paid family health care coverage.
“The new Contract is an important victory not only for Office cleaners and their families, but for our economy and our city,” said Hector Figueroa, secretary-treasurer SEIU Local 32BJ, in a statement. “In these tough times the workers who keep the New York City corporate office and landmark buildings are clean and well have stood to middle-class jobs which both our economy and our city.”
Building owners are trying to make a two-tier wage system in which new employees will never get as much as a member of the union. They also wanted to eliminate automated system employees contribute to the political Fund Proposal is not the Union. is part of The final Treaty by building owners, said Kwame Patterson, a spokesman with the SEIU Local 32BJ.
Workers unionized building clean and maintain approximately 1,500 buildings in New York, including landmarks such as Rockefeller Center, MetLife building, the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, Port Authority and the Time Warner Center, along with educational institutions the University of New York and the New School.