{"id":341317,"date":"2026-09-09T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341317\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:46:12","slug":"union-announces-plan-to-boost-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341317\/","title":{"rendered":"Union announces plan to boost membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local 32BJ SEIU, which represents doormen and other building workers, announced a plan to expand its 20,000 city security division to 70,000 by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Pastreich, the president of 32BJ SEIU, and Pedro Francisco and Yvette Cumberbatch, two security officer advocates, joined \u201cInside City Hall\u201d to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco and Cumberbatch also worked as security officers at the World Trade Center in 2001, and they shared their stories of the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The union lost 24 members from the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local 32BJ SEIU, which represents doormen and other building workers, announced a plan to expand its 20,000 city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,11,10,12,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-341317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}