Some 32,000 doormen, janitors and other building workers in New York, who were threatening to go on strike, finally reached an agreement on Tuesday with representatives of their employers around a new collective agreement.
Representatives of building owners and managers have in particular given up on having employees pay part of their health insurance contributions and on reducing the number of sick leave days. The union members also obtained an average salary increase of 3% per year over the next four years and a single bonus of 3000 dollars.
Nearly 10,000 people had demonstrated last week along Park Avenue, a street lined with posh buildings often featuring a doorman in livery in the Manhattan borough, to exert pressure as the expiration of their contract, this Tuesday at the end of the day.
A strike in 1991 for 12 days
The two parties, branch 32BJ of the service sector union SEIU and the Real Estate Labor Relations Advisory Board RAB, finally announced in separate statements that they had found common ground just hours from the ultimatum. .
The agreement still needs to be approved by all union members.
The last strike by doormen and other building workers in New York dates back to 1991 and lasted 12 days.
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