Vantage agrees to pay raises for supers

Vantage Properties, the Queens landlord that recently settled for $1 million in a harassment case with its rent-regulated tenants, has reached an agreement with the union representing its superintendents to raise salaries and add health care coverage, according to the Daily News. “Once the buildings get better… the tenants will be treated better,” Ozzie Lo Verme, president of Teamsters Local 808, explained. Lo Verme said negotiations with the landlord began to pick up in the midst of the controversy surrounding Vantage’s tenant harassment suit. The new contract, Vantage’s first with the union, affects 86 supers and porters in 88 Queens buildings. [NYDN]

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