Local 374 Member Helps Cops Nab Hate Crime Suspect at NYPL
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS A quick-thinking Local 374 member at a New York Public Library helped police nab a homeless man suspected in seven separate violent attacks on Asian [...]
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Cultural Institution Employees $ave with MELS Legal Benefit
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Dozens more DC 37 members who work at NYC’s cultural institutions are using MELS since union representatives on the Trust for Cultural Resources [...]
City Library Leaders Discuss Pandemic Response
By MIKE LEE When 2020 began, the city’s three library systems — New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library — were building on their [...]
NYBG Orchid Show’s Virtual Tour
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS While most of the city is shuttered because of COVID-19, DC 37 members in Quasi Public Employees Local 374 are hard at work behind the scenes [...]
Cultural Trust Restores Union’s Legal Services
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Beginning March 1, DC 37 will resume offering legal services to members employed at and who have retired from New York City’s cultural institutions. [...]
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Worker Wins Wage Hike and Back Pay
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS After eight months of labor-management meetings, DC 37 Local 374 has won a wage hike and retroactive pay that adds about $1,400 to the annual salary of a [...]
All aboard! Holiday Trains are a favorite at NY Botanical Garden
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Under a canopy of verdant tropical flora, the annual Holiday Train Show is in full bloom at the New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit features 175 [...]
Libraries Are What Unites Us
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 the essay on [...]
A Passionate Activist, Local 374 President Retires
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Cuthbert Dickenson, a passionate activist for workers’ and immigrants’ rights, retired as president of Quasi-Public Employees Local 374. Dickenson [...]
Breaking point
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Sammy Kamara was 7 when his parents sent him to live with an uncle in Monrovia, Liberia, to learn English with hopes for a better life. The uncle [...]
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