NYCHA workers get union status, but lose remote-work option

Dozens of employees at the New York City Housing Authority in four formerly non-union managerial positions are set to join District Council 37 later this year. But the 60 workers transitioning into the bargaining unit, while gaining several benefits and the ability to be paid time-and-a-half for overtime work, will lose access to a prized privilege — the ability to work from home multiple days a week. 

The employees, like most other non-union managers at NYHCA, had clearance to work from home as many as three days a week for nearly two years. Union workers at the authority, though, have been obliged to come into the office every day of the week since workers returned to office following the worst of the pandemic, even if their managers aren’t there.