“The state of labor in the city is good and has been for awhile,” Vinny Alvarez, the president of the AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council said, taking stock in his Chelsea office a couple of weeks before Labor Day and the Sept. 7 parade that he expects will once again bring out more than 50,000 people.
“Our numbers have been steadily increasing over the years,” said Mr. Alvarez, who earlier this year gained his third four-year term leading the umbrella group for the city labor movement, noting that 24.5 percent of the workforce, covering both public and private sectors, is unionized, up from 21.5 percent when it “bottomed out” in 2012, a point when labor was still feeling the impact of the national recession and a municipal hiring freeze imposed by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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