Magic, Where's Our Health Care?

Crain’s New York Business

Union protests Magic Johnson condo building

“SEIU Local 32BJ is calling on the ex-basketball star to give better health benefits to workers at the luxury condominium building he owns in downtown Brooklyn.

The building service workers union put a full-court press on Magic Johnson Monday, launching a Web site to protest the former NBA basketball star’s use of non-union labor at a Brooklyn condominium building owned by his investment company”

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Protest Staged by Building Workers Union at Former Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building

by Linda Collins

FORT GREENE — Last Thursday, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn joined members of 32BJ, the building service workers union, speaking to a crowd of protestors and their supporters in front of One Hanson Place, the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank building in Fort Greene.

They were protesting the lack of benefits for the workers who maintain the newly converted luxury condominium.

Currently, the workers at the building are being denied the family health care, pension benefits and job security that 60,000 other New York building service workers represented by 32BJ receive, according to Kyle Bragg, 32BJ vice president.

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Union fury over Magic Johnson's luxury tower in Brooklyn

BY RACHEL MONAHAN
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 7:33 PM

The Williamsburg Savings Bank luxury condos may be Brooklyn's tallest building, but project financier Magic Johnson has no reason to be proud, workers and union officials have charged.

The hoops legend's developer partner for One Hanson Place - as the iconic clock tower building is now called - has hired nonunion workers, bucking the trend at luxury city residences.

The building's 10 doormen, porters and other workers must pay $300 a month for health insurance for each family member.

"We're not going to stand by while developers at Brooklyn's clock tower make money on the backs of the workers who keep their luxury condos running," said Kyle Bragg, vice president of the service union Local 32BJ.

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