A subsidiary of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union plunked down the cash for the two-bedroom condo at 325 Fifth Ave. in 2017.
The powerful retail workers union headed by Amazon killer Stuart Appelbaum spent $1.9 million buying a luxury midtown condo that sits unoccupied.
“Somehow spending union money on a lavish lifestyle while we are losing members is somehow acceptable and condoned by the existing leadership. I am sure that our membership would find this lavish spending morally corrupt,” Hunt says on hisHe told The Post that the board only approved the purchase after a former union official, Allen Mayne, alerted the federal Department of Labor, which opened a probe.
Mayne, who had been director of collective bargaining, told The Post he was illegally terminated from the union and then reached a settlement agreement with it. As proof, he enclosed a letter from the Cozen O’Connor law firm, which the union hired, saying the matter was closed.
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