Privileged DSA leader who lives in parents’ $1.5M house got fired for not showing up to electrician gig — then convinced socialist comrades to pay him $95K

NY Post ^ | 8/19/26 | Craig McCarthy, Haley Brown

[Libloather]

The top DSA leader whose parents set him up in cushy Brooklyn digs short-circuited as a union electrician — and then convinced his socialist party comrades to pay him a near-six-figure salary, The Post has learned.

Former Yale University liberal arts student Gustavo Gordillo, 38, was fired from his apprenticeship program in March after ghosting his employer for months, meaning he never made it as a fully-credentialed electrician, the IBEW Local 3 union confirmed Wednesday.

“After learning of Mr. Gordillo’s prolonged absence from and failure to participate in required work and classes, the trustees of the Joint Apprentice Training Committee terminated Mr. Gordillo from the program,” the IBEW said in a statement.

A source close to the union said “he didn’t have a strong work record to begin with” and took the job “just for show,” while hogging “a slot from someone who probably really needed the opportunity.”

But Gordillo failed to mention that he’d gotten canned when sources said he made an emotional appeal to Democratic Socialists of America rank-and-file for full-time pay and benefits last month.

“Both of them [Gordillo and his co-chair Grace Mausser] went into detail on their day jobs on how since [Mayor] Zohran [Mamdani] won they were getting so much national attention,” one attendee of the July Queens DSA meeting recalled.

He even regalled the audience with stories about the struggles of him having to do media interviews, using an ear piece on construction job sites, telling the crowd it was too “distracting,” the source said.

The measure to pay Gordillo and Mausser each $95,000 a year with benefits ended up passing.

“This appeal to a struggle that he is facing doesn’t seem real at all. It’s a lie,” the source said — in light of The Post’s Wednesday front-page story detailing how...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: comrades; dsa; fired; socialist

[Libloather]

Hold on. Even the listless, fired commie freeloaders are rich? How did they do that? I'll just have to rethink everything.

[Jim Noble]

“Then convinced socialist comrades to pay him $95K”

Is there aught we have in common with the greedy parasite
Who will lash us into serfdom
And will crush us with his might
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight
For the Union makes us strong

Solidarity forever

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Gustavo Gordillo is a fool. An electrician apprenticeship is a highly sought after position. They usual start you off at half off of full scale, with a pay increase every six months until you become a journeyman. It takes 5 years. What an ungrateful SOB.

[FlyingEagle]

The politburo get all the Dachas.

[neverevergiveup]

Worthless POS.

[FamiliarFace]

It was just for show. The guy had no interest in working. Mama and Daddy will always take care of their little boy.

[Justa]

Just like Che Guevara. He’ll be executing coeds and electricians if he gets in power. -For the Revolution

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

A bum.

[Sarah Barracuda]

This is what commies do they bitch about the rich and taxing them to oblivion meanwhile they are living it large on mommy and daddy’s money

[LegendHasIt]

Proving once again, that Socialism is for the peasants to endure, not the Socialists themselves.

[MV=PY]

Slimy worthless parasite.

[Flaming Conservative]

Gustavo Gordillo is a fool. An electrician apprenticeship is a highly sought after position. They usual start you off at half off of full scale, with a pay increase every six months until you become a journeyman. It takes 5 years. What an ungrateful SOB.

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Aw, come on! You wouldn’t expect him to WORK, would you?🙄

[Flaming Conservative]

And tax money.

[jmacusa]

Unionism is socialism.

The best move I ever made was getting out of The International Laborers Union Of North America, AFL/CIO.

Nothing but a bunch of Mafia goons and grifters.

[ConservativeMind]

I worked in a place where over 93% were union.

I never became part of it.

Strangely, I had great relationships with the two head union reps, even helping one get a specific operation her HMO did not suggest and pushed back on, but later agreed to do it because it was a great long-term option and recovery time was a fraction of the time, despite being slightly more expensive for just the surgery.

She was so very happy to have done it. Out the same day or the next, as I recall.

The other I was over at his house multiple times.

Both really trusted me, and I cared about them.

[Midwesterner53]

Tyrants always live like kings while they force the masses to live in shacks and mud huts. Nothing has changed. Castro made it into a fine art.