Union, Advocates Fight Against Cuts to Library Budgets
Facing possible cuts in the city budget, DC 37 leaders of locals representing public library employees took to the steps of City Hall May 21 with the heads of the city’s [...]
POLITICS
Local 1549 Conference: A Call to Action
By GREGORY N. HEIRES About 200 shop stewards, activists and union leaders attended Local 1549’s annual conference on advocacy and political action on Jan. 26. Each year, [...]
AFSCME Members Join Federal Workers in Rally to End Government Shutdown
AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders and Janice Fridie (District Council 20). Photo Credit: Lorenzo Soto. AFSCME members today joined furloughed federal workers in Washington, D.C., to [...]
Health-Care of 350,000 Immigrants at Risk Under Trump’s Proposed Policy Changes
By GREGORY N. HEIRES DC 37 is working with a coalition of health-care advocates to try to stop the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that would cut more [...]
The Midterm Elections and Us
By HENRY GARRIDO The midterm elections have shown that unions are a vital electoral force in our country and the United States is undergoing a political realignment that we [...]
The Referendum on Trump
The mid-term elections on Nov. 6 are a referendum on President Trump. We say: “Vote no!” No to Trump’s policies that favor the wealthy and throw crumbs to the working [...]
Local 1549 Shop Stewards Help Energize the Union
By GREGORY N. HEIRES More than 200 shop stewards in Local 1549 are fired up about carrying the union message to the workplace after they spent the Columbus Day weekend at a [...]
Help the Union Get Out the Vote
When hardworking public employees and union members ask how the politics of this country got to where they are now, much of the answer can be found in the midterm elections [...]
Members Outraged by Radical Right’s Anti-Union Campaign
By GREGORY N. HEIRES DC 37 members are angry that, in the wake of a politically charged U.S. Supreme Court attack on unions, wannabe union-busters are trying to dupe New York [...]
March to Fight Climate Change and Support Jobs, Justice
By GREGORY N. HEIRES DC 37 environmental activists are gearing up for a march on Thursday to protest against climate change and speak up for green jobs. Hundreds are expected [...]
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