City Budget Update: Jobs, Funding on the Line
By MIKE LEE As the City moves closer to finalizing a budget, several critical areas of New York City’s public services remain at risk of significant cuts in funding. At a [...]
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State Passes Budget, Raises Minimum Wage for Working New Yorkers
By MIKE LEE In a sharp break from typical timelines, the New York State Legislature passed a $229 billion Fiscal Year 2023-2024 State budget in the late hours of May 3, more [...]
U.S. Department of Labor Lauds DC 37 Green Jobs Initiative
By MIKE LEE The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reported on the DC 37 Green Jobs Training Initiative in late April, citing the union’s efforts to “support environmental [...]
Maintaining Wellness at Work and Home
By MIKE LEE Members of the six locals in the DC 37 Non-Profit Public Sector Division participated in a March 23 webinar titled Wellness, Healthy Coping, and Resilience during [...]
Union, City Launch Pilot Program for Hybrid Work
As an integral part of the newly ratified 2021-2026 Citywide Economic Agreement, the Flexible Work Committee issued its first recommendations for a hybrid pilot program on [...]
Health Care Worker Bonus Program Update
By The DC 37 Research and Negotiations Department In 2022, New York State began processing payment of the Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus covering the first two [...]
Contract Ratified: Members Overwhelmingly Back Citywide Contract in Historic Vote
By MIKE LEE In a landslide vote of 97.7%, District Council 37 members ratified the 2021-2026 citywide economic agreement with the City of New York. This 65-month-and-12-day [...]
PSU Supports Members with Occupational Stress
As the City and the union move forward in developing a remote work pilot agreed upon in the recently ratified collective bargaining agreement, the Personal Service Unit of [...]
Jane LaTour: Warrior for Work Equality
By MIKE LEE Jane LaTour, retired Public Employee Press Associate Editor, long-time union activist, and author of the seminal work Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women [...]
Hiring Halls: Rebuilding the City with a New Generation of Public Workers
By MIKE LEE Workers, the City needs you! To fill a significant gap in vacant job positions across City agencies, District Council 37 partnered with the Department of Citywide [...]
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