Civil Service Technical Guild Local 375 DC37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
We are more than 5500 engineers, architects, planners, scientists who design, build and maintain New York City’s infrastructure. We are proud of our work to keep our great city running. We are the Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375 of District Council 37, AFSCME.
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Workers Memorial Day is this Sunday, April 28, when we honor workers killed or injured on the job. On this day in 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was formed.
For almost half a century, OSHA has been charged with helping to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for men and women across this country. But under the Trump administration, OSHA is failing us. As we observe Workers Memorial Day, it’s clear that we can do more – much more – for worker safety.
Megha Desai is a public defender in Multnomah County, Oregon. In a given week, she might work upwards of 60 hours. Right now, she has about 145 open cases.
“It's like a conveyor belt. Every day you work on your assigned cases, new ones roll in,” said Desai, a member of Local 2805 (Council 75). “There's a joke in the office: If you don't come in on the weekends, you’re screwed for the next week.”
The first weekend of April was an exception: It was her wedding.
All-knowing sources of information. Tour guides to the highways and byways of history. The friendly voice of a morning story time. If that’s all you think of when you think of your library staff, you’d do well to meet some of AFSCME’s library workers, whose reach goes far beyond their libraries’ walls.
Today is National Library Workers Day, when we honor those professionals who keep our libraries running: librarians, technicians and other staff, including custodians, security and maintenance workers.
Fifty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to help rally the community around 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike.
We want you to be part of New York City’s largest public employee union, with about 150,000 members and 50,000 retirees. Do you work in a DC 37 title? Are you paying dues without being a member? Then sign up today for a voice in your union and your workplace. Join electronically to become a Local 375, DC 37 member and sign up to receive the latest union news.