HECTOR FIGUEROA

YOU SEE Hector Figueroa’s members every day. They are the doormen, supers, maintenance cleaners and security guards in residential and commercial buildings across New York. His local, 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, is the biggest private-sector union in the state and a powerful force stretching up and down the East Coast.

Since Figueroa took the helm in 2012, he has been working hard to bring bring others into the House of Labor, most notably the 12,000 forgotten and dispossessed contract workers at the three big airports, who are employed by middlemen contracted out by the airlines.

Under his leadership, they have started to get better pay and benefits, but more is to be done, and it’s up to Figueroa to deliver.

Michael Aronson