EMS Workers Save Four New Yorkers Exposed to Deadly Gas
By ALFREDO ALVARADO Four New Yorkers were saved from deadly noxious fumes by two quick-thinking Emergency Medical Technicians. Local 2507 members Frantzi Honore and Zache [...]
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City Launches Free School Lunch Program with Help from the Union
By ALFREDO ALVARADO After DC 37 spent years battling City Hall to make sure all students, regardless of their ability to pay, receive a hot meal at lunch time, free lunch [...]
Mounted Unit Protects City Parks
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Keeping New York City’s natural jewels, verdant parklands like Van Cortlandt Park, Central Park and Prospect Park, safe are the equestrian detail of [...]
DC 37 Members Play a Critical Role in New Subway Line
By JOSEPH LOPEZ After nearly a century of delays and dead ends, New York City’s long- proposed Second Avenue Subway line finally opened to the public on Jan. 1. The [...]
Member’s Estate Awarded $20,000 for Back Pay
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS The DC 37 General Counsel’s Office obtained a consent award that granted posthumously $20,000 in back pay to a Local 1597 Custodial Assistant, who was [...]
New York City Mourns Slain EMS Worker
By ALFREDO ALVARADO New Yorkers from all over the city are not only expressing their condolences to the family of Emergency Medical Technician Yadira Arroyo–who was [...]
EMS Worker Killed in Ambulance Hijacking
By ALFREDO ALVARADO An EMS worker was killed and another was injured on Thursday, March 16, as a 25-year-old man attempted to commandeer their ambulance. Emergency Medical [...]
“Unions Fight for You. Non-union Workers Can be Dumped, No Questions Asked.”
I grew up just two blocks away from the American Museum of Natural History. It always amazed me that so many people would come from around the world to see the dinosaurs and [...]
Local 372 Shop Stewards Get Fired Up at Training Conference
By ALFREDO ALVARADO “Stay ready,” was the rallying cry at the weekend retreat for Local 372 shop stewards. The local’s president, Shaun D. Francois I, welcomed 154 shop [...]
Local 372 Backs Mayor’s Plan to Hire 300 New School Crossing Guards and Supervisors
By ALFREDO ALVARADO For three straight years New York City has seen a reduction in traffic fatalities, with 2016 being the safest-ever. Aiming to make sure accidents continue [...]
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