Public Employee Press

Local 1407 helps members prep for key civil service test

Hundreds of city workers are enrolled in a Local 1407 course to prepare for the Associate Accountant civil service exam in October.

The local designed the eight-session course with the support of the DC 37 Education Fund and pressed the city to hold the exam as part of its effort to help members move up the civil service career ladder. A key goal of the course is to help members in provisional status move into permanent positions, which offer greater job security and contractual rights.

“Five years ago, 70 percent of our members were provisionals, and now that number has fallen to 25 percent,” said Local 1407 President Maf Misbah Uddin, who is also DC 37’s treasurer, at the opening day of the class Sept. 29 at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan.