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Jan 2025: What do you want to win?

In 2024, our DC 37 Local 768 members won some major victories, including Equity Pay increases. Our members and council reps worked together to win hearings and to save jobs. What are you looking forward to winning in 2025? Tell us!

 


Union Busting (is disgusting)

As we fight division with solidarity, some members have reported getting a mailing from an anti-union organization called the Freedom Foundation. This union busting effort seeks to deceive and cause confusion. They seek to undermine our strength and solidarity by pushing workers to discontinue our union membership. Thanks for letting us know, and thanks for seeing through these tactics and recognizing the vital role our strong union plays in safeguarding employment, benefits, and pensions and helping us run a fairer, more equitable city. Don’t Get Scammed. Read more from DC 37 and from our sibling union Local 371 about the union busters.  


DC 37 History

On Jan. 27, 1956, the first collective bargaining election among city employees was held: Parks Laborers chose DC 37 by a vote of 4,097 to 173.

Photograph from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYU.

 


DC 37 Health & Security Plan Benefit Fair

Tomorrow, January 30, 2-4 p.m., the DC 37 Health & Security Plan invites you to attend a Health & Security Plan Benefit Fair in our new union headquarters. The monthly fairs are designed to enhance your understanding of the benefits available to you and your eligible dependents and to address any questions or concerns. 

This is a great opportunity to learn more about your Health & Security benefits and the variety of resources available to you as a DC 37 member. All members are welcome to attend and take advantage of this event. We look forward to seeing you there. 

Tomorrow, January 30, 2-4 p.m., DC 37 Headquarters, 125 Barclay, DC 37 Health & Security Plan Benefit Fairs.

Also, welcome home, DC 37! After five years away, our new modernized, state-of-the-art union headquarters is open at 125 Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan. Members can walk into 125 Barclay between 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday to be assisted– no appointment necessary. Our Local 768 offices will be completed in February.


Join us! Upcoming meetings

 Join us for these upcoming events:

Be sure to get your free flu shot, and check out classes and education opportunities and other services here, via the DC 37 Education Fund.

We’ve been using our members-only moderated group chat to communicate announcements and updates to the Local using Slack. It's also a place for member discussion and to share union resources. Join us!


Contribute! Share your story!

Want to contribute to the next Local 768 Newsletter? Share your photos, your writing, your poetry, your drawings, your comics, cartoons, and more: https://www.local768.net/content_submission. Thank you!


Solidarity keeps us warm

January 1965: 8,000 welfare workers walked out on strike and braved frigid weather in solidarity to win big gains in 1965. Photograph from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYU.

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