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Executive Board and General Membership Meetings
All meetings are held at
DC 37 Headquarters,
125 Barclay Street,
New York, N.Y. 10007

January 26, 2012 
Executive Board
4 pm Local Office.
General Membership
5 pm Room 7.

March 22, 2012 
Executive Board
4 pm Local Office.
General Membership
5 pm Room 7.

May 24, 2012
Executive Board
4pm Local Office.
General Membership
5 pm Room 7.

September 27, 2012
Executive Board
4 pm Local Office.
General Membership
5 pm Room 7.

October 25, 2012
Executive Board
4 pm Local Office.
General Membership
5 pm Room 7.

See Schedule Details

 


Imortant News
 

News from
DC 37 Pension Committee:
Pension Committee Legislative Updates (PDF)

Labor-Relations Strategies
To Cut Benefits Costs
(PDF)

Attack on Public Employee Pensions:
Pension Fund Losses Hit States Hard, Data Show (PDF)

AFSCME Public Pensions Fact Sheet (PDF)

Re-thinking Retirement 'Rights' For Public Employees (PDF)

Constitutional Convention Facts (PDF)

Union Snow Job Just Glimpse Of Coming Blizzard (PDF)

More News...

 

News

Contracting IN beats contracting out
EXPIRED: Privatized parking meters

 

TDMs, from left, Michael Dolce, James Minnelli and Vinnie Orellano secure newly installed munimeter to sidewalk.

 


















By DIANE S. WILLIAMS

The Traffic Device Maintainers of Local 1455 are giving on-street parking a major facelift by replacing single-space parking meters with solar-powered muni-meters.

"We are always ready to work with the Dept. of Transportation to complete any assignment," said Local President Mike DeMarco, whose members will install, calibrate and maintain 13,000 multi-space muni-meters citywide. The job is moving rapidly toward its completion in 2012. "Anytime TDMs have been asked, we've always stepped up to the plate," DeMarco said. "That's why we didn't want to see this work contracted out - we knew we could get the job done for the city."
Read entire article.



Union and city open contract talks

 

The union met with the city on Nov. 10 in the opening of bargaining talks at DC 37 headquarters. The union called
for a “fair, reasonable and livable” wage increase.

 

















By GREGORY N. HEIRES

District Council 37 and the city opened bargaining Nov. 10 on a new economic agreement for 100,000 members. The union presented its demand for a "fair, reasonable and livable" wage increase, and the city responded with its proposal. Read entire article.



Pension investment reform

 

During a Nov. 9 visit to District Council 37, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu discussed the proposal for the joint management of the investments of the city's five pension plans with the union's executive board. On his left are DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts and
DC 37 President Eddie Rodriguez.

 

By GREGORY N. HEIRES

Investment management for the city's five pension systems would be coordinated under an agreement announced Oct. 27 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Comptroller John C. Liu and municipal unions. A new pension investment board would oversee the investments of the funds, which currently manage investments separately with their own boards and consultants. Read entire article.

 





DC 37 celebrates Italian Heritage

 

DC 37 Exec. Dir. Lillian Roberts, the Italian Heritage Comm., local officers and members celebrate at this
year's dinner dance. The theme of the festivities on
Oct. 22 was a Venetian carnival.

 

By JANE LaTOUR

At the 16th annual Italian Heritage Dinner Dance on Oct. 22, Committee Chair Michael DeMarco, the president of Traffic Employees Local 1455, described the event as an occasion to "celebrate with pride the many accomplishments of hard-working Italians and Italian Americans. We honor their strength, their idealism and the many contributions they have made to this country." Read entire article.





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