As GlobeSt.com reported last week, on Sept. 22, thousands of cleaners in New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island and Westchester had authorized the same strike action if talks with management failed to produce what they called an "acceptable contract agreement ensuring affordable, quality health coverage."
Kevin Doyle, the union's executive vice president, told GlobeSt.com at the time that talks were "not going well." He said that management's latest proposal was "totally unacceptable as it shifts the burden for health costs from the owner to the employee and offers no wage increase for three years."
The union--the largest private sector union in the New York area and the largest building service workers union in the US--covers more than 40,000 commercial cleaners and has a total of more than 70,000 members.
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John Salustri
John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
