push to freeze rent<\/a> on the city’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. The board notes that few U.S. workers enjoy health benefits without paying premiums.<\/p>\n\u201cWithout meaningful movement to address costs … the long-term sustainability of the industry and its workforce is at risk,” board President Howard Rothschild said in a statement. He called for negotiating “a contract that reflects these realities and supports a viable path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani and other elected Democrats were expected to join the union’s demonstration Wednesday on Manhattan\u2019s Park Avenue, home to a classic stretch of tony apartment buildings that boast doorpersons \u2014 many New Yorkers still call the mostly male workers \u201cdoormen\u201d \u2014 and other staffers. <\/p>\n
While \u201cdoorman\u201d might conjure a white-gloved fellow ceremoniously opening an ornate door, the job often involves other functions (and uniforms aren’t always quite so formal). Besides providing basic security in buildings that can have hundreds of residents, doorpersons field package and food deliveries that have mushroomed since the COVID-19 pandemic and help people with strollers and walkers navigate lobby stairs. In some buildings, the workers also clean, shovel snowy sidewalks and wrestle bins of refuse out of basements and alleys for pickup.<\/p>\n
Superintendents, meanwhile, oversee maintenance and repairs in buildings that may be a more than a century old.<\/p>\n
Some building managers already have told residents they may need to postpone renovations, moves and major deliveries and minimize deliveries and visitors, among other steps, if there is a strike. <\/p>\n
The union’s last strike, in 1991, lasted 12 days. Over the years since then, the union has at times voted to authorize a strike<\/a> but then reached contract deals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Thousands of New York City apartment building doorpersons, superintendents and other workers were set to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,64,38508,120657,57,9166,63,606,24963,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1607,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-730460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-business","tag-compensation-and-benefits","tag-contracts-and-orders","tag-general-news","tag-health-care-industry","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor","tag-labor-unions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-strikes","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116410519948384475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}