(NEW YORK CITY) - A group of Workers and Unions - including LiUNA Local 79, City University of New York’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), St. John’s University’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (SJU-AAUP), and the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, 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 Five Times Square, which will transform the 39-story office tower to 1,290 housing units. Twenty-five-percent of the new units are slated to be earmarked as affordable housing, but many of the Workers constructing the project are paid sub-standard wages too low to afford to live in the building once the conversion is completed. “I worked as a Construction Laborer for a Non-Union body shop at Five Times Square and jobsites around New York City, I was making close to minimum wage,” Construction Worker William White said. “It was difficult to survive and support my kids. I asked the company for a raise multiple times, but I never received one. I had to rely on Medicaid even though I was working full-time. I was afraid to lose my job because of my incarceration history. Construction Laborers at Five Times Square should be treated with the dignity they deserve and should be paid just wages with benefits.”

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