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District Council 37 (also known as DC 37) is New York City's largest public sector employee union, representing over 150,000 members and 89,000 retirees. [ 1 ] DC 37 was chartered in 1944 by AFSCME to represent public employees in New York City .
The endorsement was welcome news for the Democratic pol, who is facing a tough primary contest after winning a special election for his seat in January.
Under Gotbaum's leadership, DC37 successfully organized thousands of municipal hospital workers in the 1960s and helped create New York City's Office of Collective Bargaining. During the New York City bankruptcy crisis in the mid-1970s, Gotbaum and DC37 agreed to major collective bargaining concessions, which set a pattern that forced other ...
The labor powerhouse, which represents about 150,000 city workers, plans to render a final decision on March 23, according to spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein. Eric Adams poised to win backing from DC ...
During Wurf's tenure, AFSCME became known as a pioneer in aggressively recruiting women and black workers. [2] In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by the African-American sanitation workers' union, AFSCME Local 1733. [15] By 1969, AFSCME was unionizing 1,000 new workers each day.
All told, White agreed to take $156,000 in cash for his work – or 3% percent of the contracts’ value, prosecutors allege. The scheme played out in recorded conversations, prosecutors said in ...
Lillian Davis Roberts (born January 2, 1928) [1] served from 2002 through 2014 as the executive director of District Council 37 (DC37), the largest municipal union in New York City. Roberts was a nurse's aide, and was secretary of the University of Chicago Hospital local when she was invited by Victor Gotbaum to join his AFSCME union staff in ...
One such victory came in July 2005 when the 2,500 member Connecticut Independent Labor Union (CILU) voted by an overwhelming margin to become UE Local 222. [37] Since joining UE, Local 222's work has focused on bringing democracy, justice and equality to the workplace, and on organizing and mobilizing its members and local communities in fights ...