By MIKE LEE On the evening of March 4, Administration for Children’s Services worker Patria Ayton was assaulted at her mother’s apartment building in Manhattan’s Lower East Side by a Read more
BY ALFREDO ALVARADO Shaun D. Francois I, president of Board of Education Employees Local 372, blasted a March 17 NY Post article that claimed too many School Crossing Guards are Read more
BY DIANE S. WILLIAMS Veolia, the giant conglomerate that gave a clean bill of health to the poisoned water supply in Flint, Michigan, has for years drained New York City Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Albany legislators are divided over the state budget plan to cut $485 million in funding for the City University of New York and pass along that responsibility to New York Read more
BY MIKE LEE Later this month, the New York City Council will make a decision on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ambitious and innovative housing plan, which he presented in late 2015. Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Hundreds of CUNY workers, students and community activists turned out Thursday evening for a boisterous rally in front of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office, where they Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES The union is mobilizing for a rally on Thursday to support the contract fight of workers at the City University of New York, where 10,000 DC Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES The DC 37 Health & Security Plan instituted its generic-based prescription drug program two decades ago in response to the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs. Today, Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES DC 37 will join community activists at a rally on March 10 to call for full funding and a fair contract for union members at the Read more
The DC 37 Organizing Dept. is hosting a series of work site meetings in March to inform members about their many union benefits. The meetings begin at noon and last Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Years ago, the union’s dental benefit accounted for the greatest portion of the DC 37 Health & Security Plan’s budget. But today, the prescription drug Read more
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Rafael Salamanca won his special election on Feb. 23 to represent the 17th district in the City Council. Endorsed by DC 37, Salamanca defeated five candidates and Read more
Through the Free Tax Preparation program, DC 37 helped over 4,000 members in 2015 get $10 million in refunds FREE. This year, DC 37 is again partnering with Food Bank, which operates centers (each Read more
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Join the DC 37 Black History Committee for the Black History Month special finale at union headquarters – a presentation of the play “Mandela” celebrating the Read more
The cost of brand prescription drugs is going up eight times faster than the general inflation rate. Some generic manufacturers started increasing the price of generic drugs by triple Read more
By HENRY GARRIDO Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO Americans don’t like Big Pharma. And there’s a good reason for that. Earlier this year, a Kaiser Family Foundation Read more
By HENRY GARRIDO Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a state budget that would essentially starve the City University of New York. He proposes to Read more
By MIKE LEE At a news conference at the state capitol in Albany on Feb. 8, DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido, along with other union leaders and state legislators, Read more
DC 37 members and leaders traveled to Albany today to call upon state legislators to provide full funding for the City University of New York. The union has also launched a Read more
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Forty-five professional and technical workers will be hired at the School Construction Authority thanks to an agreement between the union and the SCA. The agreement was Read more
