Magic, Where's Our Health Care?

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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