Immigrant cleaners working at ConEd facilities across the city are being retaliated against in their fight for improved pay and working conditions, alleges a labor union 32BJ SEIU. The union is accusing Nelson Services Systems, the non-union subcontractor that employs 55 janitorial workers for ConEd, of failing to pay them adequate wages…

…32BJ SEIU filed an unfair labor practice charge against Nelson Services Systems with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for taking retaliatory action against workers in response to workers’ union activity….the company began arbitrarily enforcing a previously unenforced dress code as well as surveilling worker activity…

…Nelson Service Systems could not be reached for comment. …

…New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett, who chairs the New York State Assembly Committee on Energy, wrote a letter to ConEd asking them to hire union contractors…

According to the Assemblymember’s office, ConEd has not replied to the letter.