…Late on Friday, September 12, the National Labor Relation Board issued a complaint alleging that the employers of a luxury residential tower in downtown Boston restrained, coerced and illegally discriminated against a crew of eight building cleaners when they replaced them with a non-union crew…

The complaint follows the Board’s investigation of charges filed by the displaced cleaners’ union, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, after the cleaners were suddenly told on July 13 last year that they would no longer have jobs there at day’s end. According to the 17-page complaint, the LLC that owns the building, known simply as “100 Sudbury Owner,” then oversaw a shell game with the former workers to prevent them from even re-applying for their old jobs.

Among the activities outlined in the 17-page complaint was an attempt to misdirect the former workers by utilizing a dubious “subcontracting” cleaning company, telling the new cleaners not to wear uniforms with a company logo…

…this understanding quickly evaporated when the national real estate investment company Carmel Partners took principal ownership of the building last March…

The LLC and other actors named in the complaint— including the management company Greystar and non-union cleaning contractor ProKeeping— must now respond to the government…