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  • Members Lead Cleanup After Four Nor’easters Hit NYC

    Members Lead Cleanup After Four Nor’easters Hit NYC

    April 12, 2018

    By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Thunder snow, bomb cyclones and blizzards — three massive snowstorms struck New York and the eastern seaboard within a 10-day span, and a fourth storm struck Read more

  • Union Action: PEOPLE Power

    Union Action: PEOPLE Power

    April 11, 2018

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES Our political system is dominated by corporations, lobbyists and wealthy individuals. As the 2016 election cycle wound down, five individual donors had spent more than $210 Read more

  • Libraries Are What Unites Us

    April 9, 2018

    By DAN RATHER I love libraries. Always have and always will. They shaped my life from childhood onward. In my book What Unites Us, I dedicated a large section of Read more

  • Public Employees Aren’t “Leeches”

    Public Employees Aren’t “Leeches”

    April 9, 2018

    By RALPH PALLADINO As public employees, we have targets on our backs. Right-wingers like President Trump say we are taking from the “job creators,” meaning the 1 percent. They say Read more

  • Slow Down Youth Inmate Transfers

    Slow Down Youth Inmate Transfers

    April 8, 2018

    An Oct.1 deadline for transferring 16- and 17-year-old offenders from Rikers Island looms. We have no problem with the transfer. But with the transfer only months away, we fear a Read more

  • Labor Confronts a Post-Janus Future

    Labor Confronts a Post-Janus Future

    April 7, 2018

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES The anti-union case before the U.S. Supreme Court — Janus v. AFSCME — has led to a lot of soul searching about improving labor’s way of Read more

  • The Path of Most Resistance

    April 6, 2018

    The union waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide our fate in anti-union Janus v. AFSCME case. We need not bother. Instead, it’s long past time to hit the Read more

  • Union Fights to Break ICE From City Courts

    Union Fights to Break ICE From City Courts

    April 5, 2018

    By MIKE LEE The union is standing up against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents parking themselves in our city courthouses, intimidating immigrants seeking legal help. As part of a draconian Read more

  • The Court Attack

    The Court Attack

    April 5, 2018

    By HENRY GARRIDO In the next few months, we expect the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Janus v. AFSCME, a court case that aims to cripple public employee unions. Read more

  • DC 37 Members: Enjoy a Free Day at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan

    DC 37 Members: Enjoy a Free Day at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan

    April 4, 2018

    DC 37, members, bring your Member ID Card for a free admission between 9 and 10 a.m. only, on Sat., April 14 for you and your family. This early opening is Read more

  • Sharpening Skills for the Courtroom

    Sharpening Skills for the Courtroom

    April 4, 2018

    By DIANE S. WILLIAMS One hundred Court Reporters, Interpreters and clerical workers in Local 1070 wrapped up 2017 with a two-day job skills seminar at union headquarters in December. “Based Read more

  • NY State Attorney General Aims to Block Trump from Politicizing the 2020 Census

    NY State Attorney General Aims to Block Trump from Politicizing the 2020 Census

    April 3, 2018

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s decision to include a question about citizenship status in the Read more

  • Local 1070 Nursery Workers Win Pay Hikes and Upgrades

    Local 1070 Nursery Workers Win Pay Hikes and Upgrades

    April 2, 2018

    By DIANE S. WILLIAMS In Family Court, a parent’s battle for justice requires relief by child support, custody, protection from domestic abuse, separation or even divorce. When children are at Read more

  • More School Crossing Guards Needed

    More School Crossing Guards Needed

    March 31, 2018

    By ALFREDO ALVARADO At a March 14 press conference on the steps of City Hall, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson joined Local 372 President Shaun D. Francois I in demanding Read more

  • Our Union: Fighting Together for Dignity and Respect

    Our Union: Fighting Together for Dignity and Respect

    March 28, 2018

    By ALMA ROPER When I reflect on what is important in life, I always include the union. For many years union members like us have fought for, and won, many Read more

  • The Stock Market and Inequality

    March 26, 2018

    Before the recent sudden drop in the stock market, President Donald J. Trump liked to link what he described as the “booming economy” to record stock earnings. “The stock market Read more

  • Union Organizing: a Civil Right

    March 23, 2018

    Now that the arguments were made — on both sides — in the Janus v. AFSCME case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26, the waiting game for Read more

  • Brooklyn Museum Agrees to Drop Its Plan to Seek Concessions from Workers

    Brooklyn Museum Agrees to Drop Its Plan to Seek Concessions from Workers

    March 22, 2018

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES After intense pressure from the union, the Brooklyn Museum agreed to end a two-year effort to win concessions from its unionized staff. The agreement includes a Read more

  • Union Benefit Fund Takes on Big Pharma

    March 19, 2018

    By GREGORY N. HEIRES As pharmaceutical companies continue their rampant hikes of drug prices and ignore the dangers of their products, DC 37 and other unions’ benefit funds, states, counties Read more

  • Members Celebrate Irish Heritage

    Members Celebrate Irish Heritage

    March 15, 2018

    By MIKE LEE On a rainy Friday night, a crowd of hardy souls braved the first of the two Nor’easters that had struck New York City to celebrate the courage Read more

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