Workers at a Bronx car wash voted to form a union on Saturday, the second one in New York City. The workers say that they face wage and hour violations. The state attorney general said last spring that they were investigating the car wash, as well as others owned by the same company, for wage violations. The company settled another lawsuit in 2009, paying $3.4 million in back pay and damages. Workers also said that they wanted more training and safer conditions. The vote is part of a large-scale unionization effort at New York City car washes, which employ about 5,000 people.
See "Challenging Owners to Raise Wages, Workers at a Second Carwash Vote to Unionize", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, October 21, 2012