Workers, Construction and Higher Ed Unions, Demand Apollo Global Management Respect Worker Rights

A group of workers,unions including LiUNA Local 79, CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY),  St. John’s University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (SJU-AAUP), and the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO rallied against worker mistreatment outside of Apollo Global’s Manhattan headquarters.

Apollo Global is partnering with RXR on the office-to-residential conversion project at 5 Times Square, which will transform the 39-story office tower to 1,290 housing units. 25% of the new units are slated to be earmarked as affordable housing, and the group argues that many of the workers constructing the project are paid substandard wages too low to afford to live in the building once the conversion is completed.