By MIKE LEE Justice has been served in a case of a Local 1482 Brooklyn Library Guild member exposed to asbestos at work. The incident occurred in November 2015, when the member — a custodian at… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES After settling a grievance with New York Public Library, the clerical staff at the Library for the Blind received title upgrades and salary increases. The grievance contended the DC 37 members were… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES As right-wing interests push for a constitutional convention in New York, a similar move is afoot around the country. But that effort has a different target: the U.S. Constitution. Whether the goal… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Before today’s City Council budget hearing, library advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning to demand more funding for the city’s three public library systems. Union and city leaders,… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO “I think we’re missing an opportunity to use available federal funding to make school lunches free,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said when he was on the campaign trail in 2013. As mayor, he’s… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Library supporters are gearing up for a rally on Friday to press the City Council to fund seven-day service and capital projects. The rally on the steps of City Hall–supported by DC… Read more
By DIANE WILLIAMS DC 37 Local 983 welcomed several classes of new recruits to the Parks and Recreation Academy on Randall’s Island in March. Twenty new Urban Park Rangers, all recent college graduates, previously worked security… Read more
Our 2010-17 economic agreement — which covers 98,000 members — expires in September. The union is gearing up for negotiations and wants to hear your top concerns and the steps you are willing to take to… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Administrators of the union’s welfare plan are mounting a new legal offensive to keep the rising costs of generic drugs in check. If successful, the court cases would help “correct widespread corrupt… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Angry activists lined the corner of W. 118 Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem and waited for the Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan to tell him what they think of his support of… Read more
By MIKE LEE “You are the backbone of this union. You gotta get off your ass,” said Iowa District Council 61’s President Danny Homan, in a blunt warning to activists that they must pick up the… Read more
Local 983’s Jose Molina turned his life around, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may deport the family man for a 20-year-old conviction. By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Loud pounding at 5:30 a.m. on a cold January… Read more
Clerical Associate 3 Olivia Crum-Owens, Local 1549 Photo: Clarence Elie-Rivera I wanted to be like Nurse Hardy on the TV show General Hospital, so I enrolled in SEEK, a jobs program, at Hunter-Bellevue to become a… Read more
Sr. Landscape Architect Ricardo Hinckle, Local 375 As a Senior Landscape Architect, I supervise a staff of seven others, making sure that their projects are completed properly, safely and on time. Our goal is to deliver… Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Calling for the protection of immigrant and worker rights, DC 37 activists joined protesters in a march on May Day Demonstrators gathered for an evening rally on May 1 at Foley Square… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Dozens of City Council members were at DC 37 headquarters last week to meet with leaders and activists about the union’s budget and legislative priorities. DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido put the… Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Louis G. Albano, who started his civil service career as a Junior Electrical Engineer and rose through the ranks to become the president of Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375, passed away on… Read more
Pam Sage, Clerical Associate 3, Local 1549 If you ever have the opportunity to take on new experiences that you can learn from and help people through, take it. That is the best advice I can… Read more
La’Nette Murphy, Parent Coordinator, Local 372 PS 15 is in the Lower East Side in District 1. I’ve been working there for 14 years as a Parent Coordinator. We have a lot of other members of… Read more
Yasmine, Garcia, Traffic Device Maintainer, Local 1455 A lot of women should know they can move into nontraditional jobs. I came into the Dept. of Transportation 12 years ago as an Auto Service Worker where I… Read more