The Marin Organization has connections to three companies: Marin Workforce, Marin Laborers of NJ and Apex Labor Solutions. All three provide non-union laborers to construction sites in the NY metropolitan area. All three are also owned by various members of the Marin family which includes husband and wife, Jeffrey Marin and Wendy Marin, and their children, Skylar Marin and Lindsay Marin Friedlander. The Marin Organization is led by President Jeffrey Marin and VP Skylar Marin. 

  • In New York’s real-estate industry, “Body Shops” like Marin Workforce, Marin Laborers of NJ and Apex Labor Solutions are known as providers of non-union Black and Latino construction laborers whose bodies can be used to build projects as cheaply as possible. The contingent labor force recruited by Body Shops often consists of the most precarious workers in New York City: immigrants, economically disadvantaged New Yorkers, and formerly incarcerated workers. Body Shops rely on the system of mass incarceration to create a pipeline of workers. Body Shops create an underclass of construction laborers of color who are paid at or slightly above minimum wage.  
  • In 2021 Marin Workforce and Marin Organization agreed to a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to resolve a case alleging coercive rules and statements. As part of the settlement Marin was required to distribute a notice of rights to all employees that affirmed their right to talk about wages and other terms and conditions of employment with their coworkers.
  • A former employee at Marin described unsafe conditions and being pressured to return to work while injured. When an employment program learned of allegations about Marin’s working conditions, their placement services arm stopped working with Marin.
  • In 2025 Marin Laborers of NJ was found in violation of the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act and agreed to settle for $26,562 in back wages and $5,531 in administrative penalties and fees. The New Jersey Department of Labor investigation concluded that the company failed to pay the prevailing wage, failed to keep and submit certified payroll, and failed to register as a public works contractor. Nearly all Marin workers were paid a rate of $18 an hour when they should have been paid the prevailing wage. 
  • On February 24, 2026, a National Labor Relations Board charge was filed against Apex Labor Solutions for changing the employment status and/or work opportunities of employees in retaliation for their protected concerted activity at 5 Times Square.
  • On December 18, 2025, the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection sent Preliminary Charges/Findings for five employees of Apex Labor Solutions and Marin Workforce for violations of the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act.