NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Office of Labor Relations (OLR) Commissioner Renee Campion today announced agreements with District Council 37 (DC 37) and Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1180, collectively…… Read more

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and District Council 37 (DC 37) Executive Director Henry Garrido today announced a new pilot program offering DC 37 members work flexibility as the Adams administration continues…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 issues the following statement in response to Mayor Eric Adams’s announcement of permanently restored funding for the Job Training Participant (JTP) program in the City’s Department of Parks & Recreation and…… Read more

Agreement covers employees from District Council 37, Teamsters Local 237, and SEIU Local 300 Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a tentative labor agreement lasting over five years between The City… Read more

NEW YORK— Today, District Council 37 took the difficult steps of suing the Adams administration over the budget modifications, or Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEG), announced on Nov. 16. The union filed suit to fight…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 issues the following statement regarding the passing of Krystyna Naprawa: We are deeply saddened by the devastating loss of School Crossing Guard Krystyna Naprawa, who was struck and killed by a…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido makes the following statement in response to Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement of 15% budget cuts across City agencies and a hiring freeze despite more than 20,000 vacant…… Read more

NEW YORK— New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed Intro. 844-A to increase health care and hospital price transparency by allowing New Yorkers to compare costs charged by New York City hospitals for the same…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 and Local 372 NYC Board of Education Employees, the union that represents New York City’s School Crossing Guards, convened City Council allies and community groups at a rally at Tweed Courthouse…… Read more

NEW YORK— New York City Mayor Eric Adams and District Council 37 (DC 37) Executive Director Henry Garrido today announced the launch of a flexible work pilot program for city employees. The flexible work pilot agreement,…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37, New York City’s largest public sector union representing 150,000 workers and 89,000 retirees, announced its endorsements today for the New York City Council and Bronx District Attorney in the Democratic primary…… Read more

NEW YORK— Members of New York City’s largest municipal employee union voted 97.7% in favor of a 65-month-and-12-day economic agreement that will provide city workers their first pay raise since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The agreement…… Read more

NEW YORK— New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced that the city of New York has reached a tentative five-plus year contract agreement with District Council 37 (DC 37), the first major labor contract agreement…… Read more

NEW YORK— The following is a statement from District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido regarding the Department of Education’s announcement this morning that all community-based Early Childhood Education programs would be paid least 75% of…… Read more

NEW YORK— Council Member Rita Joseph, New York City Council Members and District Council 37 leaders joined Local 205 workers and child care advocates at a rally Wednesday at City Hall to demand the Department of…… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 issues the following statements in response to the fatal stabbing of FDNY EMS Lieutenant Alison Russo while on duty in Queens this afternoon:… Read more

NEW YORK— Today, DC 37 announced its endorsements for the Nov. 8 General Election for New York’s Governor, U.S. Congress, State Senate and Assembly members.… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido issued the following statement in response to the City budget cuts announced this morning… Read more

NEW YORK— District Council 37, New York City’s largest public sector union representing 150,000 workers and 89,000 retirees, announces its endorsements for the U.S. Congressional and State Senate races in the Democratic primary election.… Read more

NEW YORK— Today, District Council 37 announced it reached an agreement with the New York City Parks Department that will raise the $16 starting salary for lifeguards to the third-year hiring rate of $19.46 an hour.…… Read more