NEW YORK CITY — More than 34,000 doormen and residential workers in New York City have called off a pending strike after reaching a tentative agreement with a major landlord group on Friday, the union said.
The union, 32BJ SEIU, was threatening to strike after the current contract with the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations expired at midnight on April 20, but now that a tentative agreement has been reached, a strike is off the table.
"It's an incredibly good deal for both sides, it's a win-win," Manny Pastreich, 32BJ SEIU president, said at a press conference on Friday.
Union members — including door attendants, porters and building supers — pushed for higher wages, improved pensions and protections for healthcare benefits.
According to Howard Rothschild, the president of the Realty Advisory Board, door attendants will receive raises that amount to a roughly $9,000 increase over the next four years.
Pastreich said that the negotiations also secured fully employer-funded health care and improved pensions by 15 percent.
At a rally on the Upper East Side earlier this week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was in support of the union.
"I’m proud to stand with the 34,000 doormen, porters, supers and service workers who make our buildings run," Mamdani said. "Under our administration, New York is, and will always be, a union town."
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