EMS – DC37

State Pays Out Second Round of Health Care Worker Retention Bonus

March 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

By DIANE S. WILLIAMS New York State processed the second round of Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus (HWB) program payments to eligible workers at city agencies. The [...]

EMS Wins Important Decision

June 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

By ALFREDO ALVARADO DC 37 and Uniformed EMS Officers Local 3621 won an improper practice decision they filed with the Office of Collective Bargaining. The union, represented [...]

The District Council 37 Story Behind the Blockbuster Movie “Sully”

October 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

DC 37 members played a vital role as responders to the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. Back then, Public Employee Press ran a [...]

That September Morning

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

It was a perfect September morning. The weather was perfect, cloudless, heralding the end of summer. The day was Tuesday, primary day in New York City. As then-favored [...]

Breakthrough on CUNY and EMS Contracts

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

This summer, thousands of DC 37 members will vote on two contracts that call for a pay increase of more than 10 percent. The union concluded negotiations for the tentative [...]

EMS Locals Reach a Tentative Pact With the City

June 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

By ALFREDO ALVARADO EMS workers will receive a 10.41 percent compounded wage increase over the term of a tentative new contract negotiated by the union and the city. The new [...]

Two Parks Workers Save a Woman Assaulted by her Knife-wielding Boyfriend

April 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

BY DIANE S. WILLIAMS On an otherwise quiet afternoon, two City Parks Workers protected a desperate and bloodied woman fleeing with her young children from a knife-wielding [...]

EMS Locals Hope to Fill the Void Left by a Bankrupt Private Ambulance Company

March 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

By ALFREDO ALVARADO The drivers who worked for TransCare, one of the largest private ambulance companies in the city, had been kept waiting more than once for their paychecks [...]

Members dig deep for snowbound New York City

January 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

By DIANE S. WILLIAMS As Jonas, the second most severe blizzard on record, buried the East Coast, hundreds of dedicated public employees dug deep for New York City to survive [...]

New Law Protects EMS from Assaults

January 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Thanks to new legislation, a person who assaults an emergency services worker could face seven years in prison. [...]