Dc37 State Of The Union

NYC Central Labor Council’s Pol. Dir. Lucia Gomez on 2020 Census participation. Attorney Barbara Hart on child sex abuse legislation.

DC 37 Political Action Dir. Jeremy John on new city budget; CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies graduate/ Local 2627 member Nicolas Pineda on labor studies.

DC 37 Exec. Dir. Henry Garrido on the latest union news. Part 2 of Local 1320 NYC Sewage Treatment & Senior Sewage Treatment Workers Pres. Jim Tucciarelli on his 42 years as a union leader/activist. 

DC 37 Safety & Health Dir. Veronica Foley on House panel passing the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund permanent funding legislation.

NYS Attorney General Letitia James on her challenges as state’s top law enforcement officer; Local 1757 Pres. Maria Policarpo on city’s revenue losses; DC 37 Ed Fund Admin. Diallo Shabazz on latest Ed Fund classes and programs.

Executive Director Andrew Tilson provides a look at the 8th Workers Unite Film Festival (May 10 – 23rd) in NYC; Newsday columnist Dan Janison on the latest developments in #TrumpTwilightZone.  

Housing Justice For All’s Celia Weaver on the campaign for tenant rights; CUNY Investigative Journalist in Residence Tom Robbins on parole of Brink’s heist getaway driver Judith Clark.

Costa Constantinides, Chair of the NY City Council’s Committee on Environmental Protection, talks about the importance of and need for Intro 1253, which is poised to become the most ambitious carbon reduction bill ever passed by a city. 

Former DC 37 member David Anderson, author/activist Kate Childs Graham.

NYS AFL-CIO Pres Mario Cilento and AFSCME Dir. of Research and Negotiations Steve Kreisberg. 

Activist/Organizer Heather Booth; Brandon Weber, author of “Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History.”  

DC 37 Safety & Health Dir. Veronica Foley and Dir. of Field Ops. Barbara Edmonds with two recent graduates of our union’s Women’s Leadership Academy: Local 1359 Recording Secretary Stacey Payton & Local 768 member Daysha Padia.

Recently elected president of DC 37 and Board of Education Employees Local 372 Pres. Shaun D. Francois I, and EMS Officers Local 3621 Pres. Vincent Variale & Uniformed EMTs & Paramedics Local 2507 Pres. Oren Barzilay.

NY Times amd The Daily Beast contributing writer Michael Tomasky and Jere Hester

DC 37 Education Fund Administrator Diallo Shabazz and In the Public Interest Executive Director Donald Cohen

DC 37’s Dir. of Community Partnerships Raul Rodriguez and NYS AFL-CIO Pres. Mario Cilento.

AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders on the government shutdown, mid-term elections and the challenges ahead in 2019.

NYC Health + Hospitals Pres. & CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz and Local 3 IBEW’s Derek Jordan.

DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and NY Times columnist Dan Barry, author of This Land: America, Lost and Found.

Erik Loomis, Professor at the University of Rhode Island, discusses his book “A History of America in Ten Strikes” and Brooklyn College Professor Ron Howell, author of “The Boss of Black Brooklyn.”