Vantage Management turning a corner?
A Queens landlord that has taken heat for the way it manages its rent-regulated apartments has agreed to its first contract with the union representing its superintendents, company officials said Tuesday.
Vantage Management Services, a part of Vantage Properties, has inked a three-year deal to give its supers from Teamsters Local 808 a raise and add health care coverage, officials said.
The new contract, which kicked in retroactively on May 1 and expires April 30, 2013, will ensure improvements for tenants and employees, because once “the buildings get better … the tenants will be treated better,” said Ozzie Lo Verme, president of the Teamsters Local 808.
The contract covers 86 supers and porters from 88 Vantage-owned buildings in Queens.
The deal comes just months after Vantage reached a $1 million settlement with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in February for using what Cuomo called “underhanded tactics” to evict tenants from rent-regulated apartments with the underlying goal of converting them to market-rate units.
