New York, NY – The current four-year industry-wide labor agreement between 32BJ SEIU and the New York City residential real estate industry, represented by the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB) expires on April 20, 2026
Negotiations are taking place for the 34,000 porters, doorpersons, superintendents, handypersons and resident managers who maintain 600,000 households across 3,500 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island co-ops, condos and apartment buildings.
32BJ SEIU Strike Captains and members are preparing for a possible strike if necessary to protect their benefits and catch up to the cost of living and inflation.
Issues for 32BJ and their members include:
- safeguarding comprehensive fully employer paid family health care that currently insures thousands of members and their families;
- fair wage increases to catch up and keep pace with the cost of living and inflation;
- strengthening the pension benefit;
- improving work conditions and paid leave.
32BJ SEIU residential building service workers maintain historic pre-war co-ops on Park Avenue, to new developments, condos on the Upper West Side and luxury apartment complexes across the city.
