The union representing 28,000 doormen and other apartment-building workers in New York City reached a tentative four-year contract with building owners and managers early this morning, averting a strike threatened against 3,500 residential buildings. The deal calls for a raise of 8.5 percent over the four years for doormen, elevator operators, porters, handymen and superintendents at buildings throughout New York City.
See "Tentative Deal Averts Strike by Doormen", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, April 20, 2006