DC 37 White Papers identify waste. Learn more.

LINKS

SITEMAP


		Newsroom
		News Releases
		News Photos
		Public Employee Press
		La Voz Latinoamericana
		Radio Show
		TV Show
		DC 37 White Papers

What's Hot

DC 37 White Papers identify waste

DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, at City Hall on Feb. 25, discusses the union’s new white paper, which identifies 10 instances in which the city could save nearly $130 million by replacing contracted workers with civil servants. From left, City Council member Letitia James, Roberts, and District Council 37’s Treasurer Maf Misbah Uddin, Secretary Cliff Koppelman and Associate Director Oliver Gray. Read More

Learn More

DC 37 examination of NYC's contracting out of public services found that the city wastes $9 billion in taxpayer dollars on more than 18,000 contracts -when city workers could perform the same jobs for less and with more accountability.

February 2010 PEP: Citytime contract 1,000% over budget - DC 37 leaders blasted a 1,000 percent cost overrun on a computer contract - still unfinished after 12 years - that the city gave to former Giuliani officials with ties to the Bloomberg administration.
January 2010 PEP: Roberts: Feds should investigate the mess at 911 - DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts called for federal and local investigations of the city's problem-plagued 911 Emergency Response System and demanded a thorough audit of spending on the project to merge the police, fire and ambulance call-taking and dispatch systems.
December 2009 PEP: Consultants botch call center project - The city's $1.3 billion plan to upgrade its 911 system has become a gold mine for contractors but a black hole for city taxpayers. The Emergency Communications Transformation Project is running two years behind schedule, and a $730,000 cost overrun has raised its price to $2 billion. Mismanagement and conflicts of interest plague the contracted-out plan to merge the Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Service call-in and dispatch operations into a single system.
October/November 2009 PEP: Contracting out wastes millions as schools lay off workers - With mass layoffs of school workers looming, the new Panel for Education policy voted Sept. 14 to renew a $54 million no-bid deal with computer consultant Future Technology Associates on a project that civil servants could to at a lower cost.
September 2009 PEP: Contracting OUT wastes money, Contracting IN saves - Examples of the waste involved in contracting out at the NYC Dept. of Education and on temp agencies citywide, and the money and jobs saved at the NYC Dept. of Transportation and the New York Public Library by letting DC 37 members do the work.
September 2009 - NYC Board of Education Employees Local 372 Radio Ad Against School Layoffs: - Hear school children talk about the dedicated school employees who helped them, but who now face layoff at a time when private consultants and outside contractors are funded by $9 billion of the city's $60 billion budget. The radio ads ran on 1010 WINS, WBLS, WCBS, WWRL and WKRS. (mp3 format) For details, click here.
September 2009 - Social Service Employees Union Local 371 Video Against Administration for Children's Services Layoffs: - SSEU Local 371 President Faye Moore and Local 371 members speak up for New York City's vulnerable children who, like Nixmary Brown, could be at risk if 500 ACS workers are laid off. Their message: "Our children should always come first." They ask the public to call Mayor Bloomberg at (212) 788-0268 and tell him to save these essential jobs.
July-August 2009 PEP: Mobilize! - Hundreds of members enlisted to be the frontline troops in a citywide mobilization to combat contracting out, protect public services and save jobs.
June 2009 PEP: Shadow government wastes millions – Contractors, consultants and corruption. The city’s growing reliance on contracting out municipal work without government oversight causes a huge waste of taxpayers’ dollars, say union and other critics of the practice.
May 2009 PEP: Union hits contracting out in schools system - The Dept. of Education contract budget for the next fiscal year is $3.3 billion, accounting for more than a third of the New York City's contracting-out expenditures.
April 2009 PEP: Massive waste at a time of need - A new DC 37 white paper identifies 10 cases where the city could save about $130 million by eliminating wasteful outside contracts and highly paid consultants doing municipal work, which costs taxpayers a total of $9 billion citywide.
April 2009 PEP: Dump contractors, hire Job Training Participants - Only 90 minutes after DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts unveiled the new white paper about the $9 billion "shadow government" of consultants and contractors, a City Council hearing explored the union proposal to replace outside custodial contracts with workers from the city's Job Training Participant program.
DC 37 Radio Show - March 29, 2009 - The White Paper: Massive Waste at a Time of Need - DC 37 Assistant Associate Editor Henry Garrido and the Director of DC 37's Blue Collar Division Jose Sierra discuss how the City can save over $130 million by ending contracts to an unelected and unaccountable "shadow government" of private contractors and outside consultants. (mp3 format)
Press Coverage: Recent NYC and NYS press coverage on this issue
Community Flyers:

*Download Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files.

© District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO. 125 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10007.Privacy Policy
This site is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution or greater with Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater.