Making our voices heard in City Hall, Albany and Washington, D.C.
Political Action Department (PAL)
DC 37’s Political Action department upholds the union and its mission by pushing forth the union’s legislative agenda, lobbying elected officials on the city and state level to support or oppose legislative items that have a significant impact on DC 37 members. Political Action has helped the union win a number of key political victories that have benefited NY’S public employees.
Which Candidates Does My Union Support?
For each election, the DC 37 Political Action Committee Chair and a Screening Committee comprised of 15 Local presidents conduct candidate interviews and recommend political endorsements to the DC 37 Executive Board and DC 37 Delegates for a vote of approval.
November 4, 2025 General Election Endorsements
Zohran Mamdani
Borough President
Bronx Vanessa Gibson
Queens Donovan Richards
City Comptroller: Mark Levine
Public Advocate: Jumaane Williams
District Attorney: Eric Gonzalez (BK); Alvin Bragg (MN)
| District | Endorsement |
|---|---|
| 2 | Harvey Epstein* |
| 5 | Julie Menin* |
| 7 | Shaun Abreu* |
| 8 | Elsie Encarnacion |
| 9 | Yusef Salaam* |
| 10 | Carmen De La Rosa* |
| 11 | Eric Dinowitz* |
| 12 | Kevin Riley |
| 13 | Shirley Aldebol* |
| 14 | Pierina Sanchez* |
| 15 | Oswald Feliz |
| 16 | Althea Stevens |
| 17 | Justin Sanchez* |
| 18 | Amanda Farías |
| 20 | Sandra Ung* |
| 21 | Shanel Thomas Henry |
| 22 | Tiffany Caban* |
| District | Endorsement |
|---|---|
| 24 | James Gennaro* |
| 26 | Julie Won |
| 27 | Nantasha Williams* |
| 28 | Tyrell Hankerson* |
| 29 | Lynn Schulman* |
| 31 | Selvena Brooks-Powers |
| 33 | Lincoln Restler* |
| 34 | Jennifer Gutiérrez* |
| 35 | Crystal Hudson* |
| 36 | Chi Ossé* |
| 37 | Sandy Nurse* |
| 40 | Rita Joseph* |
| 42 | Chris Banks* |
| 43 | Susan Zhuang* |
| 45 | Farah Louis* |
| 47 | Kayla Santosuosso* |
| 49 | Kamillah Hanks* |
*Also endorsed by the Labor Strong 2025 Coalition.
NYC Charter Revision Ballot Measures
The proposal allows for some publicly funded affordable housing projects to seek zoning relief from the Board of Standards and Appeals instead of going through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process.
DC 37 opposes. The current process maintains City Council oversight, and City Council hearings allow the general public to have a say in the developments happening in their community.
This creates a faster review process for smaller housing and infrastructure projects through Community Board and Borough President reviews, with final approval coming from the City Planning Commission—but without City Council input, unless state law requires Council approval.
DC 37 opposes. The current process maintains City Council oversight, and City Council hearings allow the general public to have a say in the developments happening in their community.
This proposal will establish a new appeals board (consisting of the mayor, local borough president, and City Council speaker) for cases involving affordable housing and removes the mayor’s current veto power under ULURP. Instead, when two of the three members agree, the appeals board has the power to overturn City Council decisions that reject or change affordable housing projects.
DC 37 opposes. The current process maintains City Council oversight, and City Council hearings allow the general public to have a say in the developments happening in their community.
If passed, this would replace the current paper-based city maps kept separately in each borough with a centralized, digital map managed by the Department of City Planning.
DC 37 opposes. Although digitalizing city maps sounds like a good idea, we don’t know what impact it will have on the city workers who currently create, maintain and update the paper maps.
This proposal moves New York City elections for Mayor, City Council, and other local offices from odd-numbered years to presidential election years — only if the state legislature approves.
DC 37 opposes. Moving city elections leaves too many open questions around associated costs and impacts of a short interim mayoral and City Council term during a presidential election cycle.
