[3] He attended the University of Puerto Rico for some time until student protests about tuition increases upset the campus.
[3] Figueroa moved back to New York and served as the secretary-treasurer for the Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union in 2000.
Local 32BJ SEIU represents between 160,000-170,000 building cleaners, security guards, doormen, and airport employees.
He told the New York Times that the fast food industry "as a whole is not meeting the needs of its workers by fundamentally basing their model on the poverty of working people.
He stated:[3]If there is any place where it would be possible to leverage the labor movement’s existing power to crack open the door to collective bargaining for Amazon workers, it is here.He was married to Maria Ríos.