It was a real labor of snub.<\/p>\n
The supposedly pro-labor Democratic Socialists of America snubbed union workers on a $20,000 renovation of its Brooklyn headquarters \u2014 a move one leader said \u201ctells you everything you need to know\u201d about the lefty group.<\/p>\n
A review of permits filed with the city revealed that Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s comrades in the New York City branch of the DSA failed to hire any union workers to do any of the upgrades on their new digs on Bedford Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn\u2019s \u201ccommie corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DSA snubbed unions with work at one of their new HQs. Google Maps<\/p>\n
Instead, the remodel \u2014 which consists of adding walls, AC units and a \u201cnew floor,\u201d according to the paperwork \u2014\u00a0for the $7,000-a-month space was being done by Three and A Half Brothers LLC. <\/p>\n
The contractor, who created the LLC just weeks before the work permits were approved in July, confirmed to The Post that he is not a union member and does not hire union workers. <\/p>\n
The snub didn\u2019t sit well with union leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DSA has built an entire political brand on standing with workers,\u201d said Paul Capurso, the executive secretary treasurer of NYC District Council of Carpenters. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen they got the chance to actually hire union workers \u2014 carpenters who live in this city, earn real wages, and have real benefits \u2014 and they passed. That tells you everything you need to know about the difference between talking about workers and actually standing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new office space is just one of the two new socialist meeting spots, after they also added a $15,000-per-month space<\/a> in a 14-story building on West 35th Street in Hudson Yards.<\/p>\n The cold shoulder to Big Apple\u2019s carpenters\u2019 union comes despite the labor group often backing DSA candidates for office, including most recently Diane Moreno, who nabbed Mamdani\u2019s former state Assembly seat in Queens in February.<\/p>\n The GC confirmed that his outfit was not part of a union. NYC Buidlings<\/p>\n Mamdani left the seat vacant when he became mayor this year.<\/p>\n They also repeatedly endorsed one of the most prominent local DSA members, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just recently returned as a dues-paying member to the chapter. <\/p>\n The DSA did not comment on their slight. <\/p>\n The New York City and Vicinity District Council of Carpenters endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over Mamdani during the Democratic Party\u2019s mayoral primary last year.<\/p>\n Gustavo Gordillo co-played a union member for months this year. unionGustavo\/X<\/p>\n The anti-capitalist cadre has made their support for unions a core pillar of the campaigns to draw in more socialist members to their cause \u2014 often picketing with striking workers. <\/p>\n Even as mayor, Mamdani stood with NYC doormen <\/a>as they authorized a strike earlier this year. <\/p>\n But it\u2019s not the first time the New York City chapter has taken the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do approach to dealing with unions. <\/p>\n The new digs are located on Bedford Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn\u2019s \u201ccommie corridor.\u201d Google Maps<\/p>\n NYC DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo<\/a> didn\u2019t hire a single union worker for a $1.4 million renovation <\/a>of his Bed-Stuy row home, which was bought by his millionaire parents<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gordillo also spent most of the year cosplaying a union electrician despite being fired in March after blowing off work for an extended period of time, according to the union.<\/p>\n