So much for solidarity!<\/p>\n
Working-class cosplaying<\/a> Democratic Socialists of America leader Gustavo Gordillo hasn\u2019t used a single union worker for renovations on his $1.5 million nepo-home in Brooklyn \u2014 as the city issued a stop-work order Friday on the project, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n A city Department of Buildings inspector slapped the order \u2014 which dinged Gordillo for not getting proper permits for interior and facade work \u2014 on the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot Bed-Stuy home\u2019s door.<\/p>\n A city Department of Buildings inspector slapped a stop work order on DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo\u2019s door Friday. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n The order halts the roughly $1.4 million gut renovation that many of Gordillo\u2019s more-hardscrabble neighbors along gentrifying Decatur Street viewed with a mix of awe and apprehension.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s really counter everything that he\u2019s supposed to represent,\u201d said Kristen Singleton-Ferrari, 59, a neighbor.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter some people have renovated or fixed up their house, obviously they feel as if they have to pass on some of that cost. But some of these renovations are not easy to do and that makes it not easy for the normal New Yorkers to be able to live in this neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n The order dinged Gordillo for not getting proper permits for interior and facade work. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n Gordillo, 38, who co-chairs New York City\u2019s DSA chapter, crowed for years about being a union electrician \u2014 but didn\u2019t even hire one to rewire the home his millionaire mommy and daddy bought him<\/a>, city records show.<\/p>\n Not one company, in fact, that Gordillo hired for the project had any record of being union-affiliated.<\/p>\n The mustachioed silver-spoon socialist tapped companies, according to a review of 11 permits, to:<\/p>\n Not every permit details an expected cost, but the moneyed Marxist seemingly was willing to plop stacks of cash over the renovation project that started in 2023. <\/p>\n Records show $78,000 slated for heating systems, $60,000 for sprinklers and $28,000 for the solar panels.<\/p>\n \u201cThey tore that house down completely like there was nothing there and they built this big green wall in front of it, so you couldn\u2019t see anything,\u201d said James, 40, a neighbor who lived across the street his entire life. \u201cAll it was, was a big wall of permits.\u201d<\/p>\n Gordillo proudly played up his union membership. unionGustavo\/X<\/p>\n Perhaps the entirely open shop home renovation project is fitting now that Gordillo himself is no longer a union member.<\/p>\n Gordillo was fired from his apprenticeship program in March after he no-showed his employer for months, the IBEW Local 3 union confirmed this week.<\/p>\n He conveniently \u2014 or deceitfully \u2014 didn\u2019t mention that fact last month when he pushed DSA rank-and-file for full-time pay and benefits by telling sob stories about supposedly doing interviews on construction job sites with an earpiece, sources previously said.<\/p>\n The whining worked \u2014 DSA members passed a measure to pay Gordillo and his co-chair Grace Mausser $95,000, plus benefits.<\/p>\n\n