BRONX BUILDING CLEANERS STAND FIRM IN CONTACT TALKS
BY DANIEL BEEKMAN (NYDN)
More than 22,000 office building cleaners and maintenance workers - including about 4,000 Bronx residents - are at loggerheads with Manhattan landlords over wages and benefits.
The landlords claim they need to cut costs, due to the bad economy. The two sides last negotiated a contract in late 2007, at the height of the real estate boom.
But the workers - members of Service Employees International Union 32BJ - voted last week to approve a strike if they don’t get a favorable new contract by Jan 1.
