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Union and Work Safety Activists Remember Triangle Fire Dead Several hundred union activists and their supporters gathered in Greenwich Village, near Washington Square, to [...]
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Union Wins New Crossing Guard Level 2 Jobs
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS A new agreement between the union, the city and the Police Department created a first-ever opportunity for promotion for Local 372 Schools Crossing [...]
Union Celebrates Victory for Public Safety at City Hall Rally
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Hours before New York City schools reopened for 1.1 million students, Dept of Education Local 372 and a coalition of grassroots groups and elected [...]
More School Crossing Guards Needed
By ALFREDO ALVARADO At a March 14 press conference on the steps of City Hall, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson joined Local 372 President Shaun D. Francois I in demanding [...]
School Crossing Guard Hospitalized After Car Hits Her in front of Brooklyn School
By ALFREDO ALVARADO School Crossing Guard Ezznati Elkhayatia was injured on the job while looking out for school children and pedestrians crossing the street in front of PS [...]
“Parents Felt Their Kids were Safe with Me on the Job”
Sallie Robertson, School Crossing Guard Retiree, Local 372 For 35 years I worked as a School Crossing Guard. My second assignment was in Brooklyn, at St. Francis of Assisi [...]
Fighting For Fair Budgets
By HENRY GARRIDO Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO As part of a coalition we played an important role in stopping nearly $1 billion in combined cuts in [...]
Retiree Activist Loses Home in Fire
By ALFREDO ALVARADO For 30 years, Sallie Robertson worked a busy Brooklyn intersection as a Local 372 School Crossing Guard helping the students from St. Francis of Assisi [...]
Local 372 President Pushes Back On Dubious Claims: “Don’t Scapegoat Our Members!”
BY ALFREDO ALVARADO Shaun D. Francois I, president of Board of Education Employees Local 372, blasted a March 17 NY Post article that claimed too many School Crossing Guards [...]
A $15 Minimum Wage for City Workers
By MIKE LEE New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $15-an-hour minimum wage for 50,000 low-paid city workers, including 20,000 workers mostly represented by DC 37, [...]
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