TWO QUEENS siblings have filed a federal complaint alleging they were fired from their jobs as doormen at a Long Island City luxury building for spearheading a campaign to join a union.
Andres and Kevin Galarza, 20 and 22, of Jamaica, said they were fired last month by a manager at the Packard Square complex in Long Island City, where they had been working for about eight months.
“He told me he received a call from the owners of the company, and he didn’t want my brother and I to work there any more,” Andres Galarza told the Daily News.
Both men said they were at the forefront of an effort to get the doormen at the three-building complex on Crescent St. to join SEIU 32BJ, hoping improve their benefits and $8.75-an-hour pay.
