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By Daniel Edward Rosen 1/03/12 10:15am

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MetLife Building and Grand Central Station, both of which are regularly scrubbed by dues-paying members of 32BJ.

Strike Averted; Offices to Remain Clean

It came before the stroke of midnight.

The Realty Advisory Board and Local 32BJ averted a New Year’s Day strike involving more than 22,000 city office cleaners by agreeing to a new four-year contract, both sides announced last Friday following a tense standoff in New York.

The contract will increase wages by 5.6 percent and will include bonuses, according to an announcement posted on the Service Employees International Union official blog.

The agreement is set to be ratified during a final board vote today. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 2/28/11 5:30pm

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Bloomberg and the Teacher Layoffs

To hear Bloomberg explain it, teacher layoffs are a necessity… and a prerogative.

One day after putting out a map detailing where more than 4,000 teacher layoffs would fall in the five boroughs, Bloomberg told reporters in Brooklyn what exactly he needs in order to keep those educators employed.

“You’d have to get Read More