Exclusive | DSA snubs union workers for $20K renovation of its NYC HQ and labor group is not happy

It was a real labor of snub.The supposedly pro-labor Democratic Socialists of America snubbed union workers on a $20,000 renovation of its Brooklyn headquarters — a move one leader said “tells you everything you need to know” about the lefty group.A review of permits filed with the city revealed that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 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’s “commie corridor.”Instead, the remodel — which consists of adding walls, AC units and a “new floor,” according to the paperwork — for the $7,000-a-month space was being done by Three and A Half Brothers LLC.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.

The snub didn’t sit well with union leaders.“The DSA has built an entire political brand on standing with workers,” said Paul Capurso, the executive secretary treasurer of NYC District Council of Carpenters.“Then they got the chance to actually hire union workers — carpenters who live in this city, earn real wages, and have real benefits — and they passed.

That tells you everything you need to know about the difference between talking about workers and actually standing with them.”The new office space is just one of the two new socialist meeting spots, after they also added a $15,000-per-month space in a 14-story building on West 35th Street in Hudson Yards.The cold shoulder to Big Apple’s carpenters’ union comes despite the labor group often backing DSA candidates for office, including most recently Diane Moreno, who nabbed Mamdani’s former state Assembly seat in Queens in February.Mamdani left the seat vacant when he became mayor this year.They also repeatedly endorsed one of the most prominent local DSA members, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just recently...