Office Cleaners' Union To Vote On Strike
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Building owners are preparing for what could be the first strike involving office cleaners in more than a decade.
Members of 32-BJ are set to vote on Thursday on whether to authorize its bargaining committee to call a strike.
If the union and the Realty Advisory Board don't reach a deal by midnight on January 1, 22,000 building workers could walk off the job, leaving some big name buildings like the Empire State Building, Time Warner Center, and Rockefeller Center without clean-up crews.
The union claims the board is seeking a decrease in wages and benefits, but the board says the workers are the highest paid in the country.