The chief negotiator for New York City's real estate industry has said that the two sides remained far apart as the union representing 28,000 apartment building workers continued to threaten a strike for Friday. The industry's negotiator has called on doormen, elevator operators and other workers to accept a one-year wage freeze. But at a boisterous rally in Central Park, many union members said they would rather strike.
See "New York Building Workers Rally Against a Wage Freeze", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 19, 2006