DC37 State Of The Union

Recently elected DC 37 Exec. Vice Pres./Metropolitan Museum of Art Local 1503 Pres. Rawle Campbell

DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido

Newly-elected DC 37 Secretary John Hyslop, who is president of Queens Library Guild Local 1321; and Municipal Employees Legal Services (MELS) staff attorney Elizabeth Perez.

DC 37’s Municipal Employees Legal Services Dir./Gen. Counsel Bill Whalen and MELS Housing Unit Co-Supervisor Anette Bonelli on NY State’s expanded tenant protections

DC 37’s youngest local president, New York City Police Department Civilian Unit Local 3778 Pres. Donique Berry. Also, a re-broadcast of SSEU Local 371’s new podcast, Studio 371, featuring SSEU Local 371 President Anthony Wells.

The conclusion of a two-part broadcast on economic inequality and mobility with guests: James Parrott, Dir. of Economic & Fiscal Policies, Center for New York City Affairs, Janet Gornick, Ph. D, Dir. of CUNY’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality and AFSCME’s Dir. of Research & Bargaining Steve Kreisberg. 

The first of a two-part broadcast on economic inequality and mobility with guests: James Parrott, Dir. of Economic & Fiscal Policies, Center for New York City Affairs, Janet Gornick, Ph. D, Dir. of CUNY’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality and AFSCME’s Dir. of Research & Bargaining Steve Kreisberg. 

Census for New York Director Julie Menin on 2020 NYC Census count; Washington, D.C. political consultant Jiore Craig on Fake News.

Labor historian/author Brandon Weber and the premiere of SSEU Local 371’s new podcast, Studio 371, featuring SSEU Local 371 President Anthony Wells.

DC 37 Exec. Dir. Henry Garrido.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Newsday columnist Dan Janison.

Author Richard Rothstein discusses his book, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America;” Political Action Director Jeremy John talks about the new Emerging Leaders Training Academy for DC 37 members interested in running for public office.

Erika Boll, Exec. Dir. of The David Prize elaborates on the annual award for NYC “boldest visionaries.” Labor historian/author Brandon Weber discusses the impeachment of past U.S. presidents.

Manhattan City Council member Ben Kallos discusses his bill to establish a retirement savings program for private sector workers; Center for American Progress’s Karla Walter talks about a new, national report that shows encouraging developments in training for public sector employees. 

 NYC Charter Revision Commission Chair Gail Benjamin on the NYC Charter and the ballot questions for the November 2019 elections.

Award-winning composer Julia Wolfe discusses “Fire In My Mouth,” her acclaimed, large-scale homage to women in New York’s garment industry at the turn of the 20th Century; James Parrott, the New School’s Center for NYC Affairs Dir. of Economic & Fiscal Policies, talks about salary parity gains for early childhood educators.

AFSCME’s Director of Research & Bargaining Steve Kreisberg on the status of American workers and their unions in today’s economy.

NYS AFL-CIO Pres. Mario Cilento on the union movement this Labor Day, 2019; Dir. of the Office of Community Partnerships Raul Rodriguez to talk about the upcoming NYC 2019 Labor Day parade.

Mark Torres on his new book, “Adeline.” Labor historian Brandon Weber on the history of Labor Day.

Former NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on his new book, “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present and Future of American Labor.

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.”

Barbara Edmonds, DC 37 Director of Field Operations

Newsday Political Columnist Dan Janison talks about the midterms.

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride on the upcoming midterm elections.

Danny Homan, President of Iowa’s AFSCME Council 61; Eli Dvorkin, Editorial & Policy Director of the Center for an Urban Future.  

Former NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse and DC 37 Exec. Director Henry Garrido.  

On the next District Council 37 radio show: DC 37’s Dir. of Political Action Jeremy John  and Criminalist/Local 3005’s Christina Aligizakis  

DC 37 Health & Safety Dir. Veronica Foley on 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund & NYC Lifeguards Supervisors Local 508 Pres. Peter Stein on 2018 beach/pool season safety record.

DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and NYC Dept. of Education Employees Local 372 Pres. Shaun D. Francois I discuss the need for more School Crossing Guards.

DC 37 Dir. of Community Partnerships Raul Rodriguez, Jon Forster of the DC 37 Climate Justice Committee talks about the Climate Justice March. Also, Newsday columnist Dan Janison on the Trump administration.  

Coalition of Labor Union Women of Missouri Vice-Pres. Cathy Sherwin on Missouri voters rejecting “Right to Work” & DC 37 Political Action Dir. Jeremy John on mid-term elections.

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride and former NY Daily News senior managing editor Stuart Marques.