
From City & State:
Manny Pastreich took over the presidency of the powerful 32BJ SEIU at the end of last year, succeeding Kyle Bragg. Pastreich was Bragg’s top deputy as the labor union’s secretary-treasurer before ascending to the helm of the building service workers union. Pastreich has been engaged in the union’s work to unionize fast-food workers, deliveristas and gig workers, keeping the union engaged in the worker rights issues developing across New York.
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From City & State:
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, supermarket and grocery workers were hailed as essential front-line workers who were keeping a quarantined country fed. Robert Newell wants to make sure the contributions of these workers are not forgotten. Newell’s union recently finalized a new contract with King Kullen supermarkets on Long Island to avert a strike. In March, workers at a Blank Street Coffee in Brooklyn voted to join Newell’s United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, which is the largest UFCW local with 20,000 members.
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