DC 37 Pushes Budget Agenda at City Council Hearing
By ALFREDO ALVARADO As the deadline to approve Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $84.6 billion proposed budget for 2018 draws closer, four leaders from District Council 37 appeared [...]
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Union Backs Legislation Requiring Automatic Sign Up for School Pension
By ALFREDO ALVARADO City employees are usually enrolled automatically in the retirement system when they are hired. But that’s not true for many members of Board of [...]
Advocates Call for More Library Funding
By GREGORY N. HEIRES Before today’s City Council budget hearing, library advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall this morning to demand more funding for the [...]
Community Activists and DC 37 Push for Universal School Lunch
By ALFREDO ALVARADO “I think we’re missing an opportunity to use available federal funding to make school lunches free,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said when he was on the [...]
Coalition Demands New York’s Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share
At a time when the state faces potential deep cuts in federal funding to vital services by the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress, DC 37 joined [...]
Local 1549 Activists Consider Political Agenda
By JOE LOPEZ The troublesome political climate of our nation and the imminent threat to labor were the topics of conversation for the 260 activists, staff and politicians who [...]
No To a Constitutional Convention
On the November 2017 ballot, New York voters will be asked to decide whether to call a convention to rewrite the New York State Constitution. The constitution mandates [...]
DC37 Endorses Mayor Bill de Blasio for Re-Election
By MIKE LEE An enthusiastic crowd gathered at union headquarters on Jan. 26 to support New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for a second term. Lauding the mayor, DC 37 [...]
Activists Send Trump a Message at Women’s March on Washington
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Answering a groundswell call to action, DC 37 activists joined hundreds of thousands of pink-hatted protesters at the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. [...]
DC 37 Works with a Coalition to Push for Universal Free Lunch in Public Schools
Sign the petition! Call on Mayor de Blaiso to ensure a free healthy lunch for all NYC schoolchildren! By ALFREDO ALVARADO What do schools in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit [...]
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