Official Publication of Social Service Employees Union Local 371-DC 37 AFSCME, AFL-CIO

the Volume 38
Number 5
May 2008

Moore Wins, Completes Sweep

of Union Elections
F aye Moore, running for president on
the Moore Team Slate, defeated
Johnnie Wertz by an overwhelming
margin in Local 371’s General Officer
Election, completing a Moore Team Slate
sweep. The count was Moore 3,552 votes,
and Wertz 390 votes. All candidates in the
General Officer election serve three-year
terms that began on May 1.
Ballots were mailed to the membership on
April 8, and were due back by 9:00 a.m. on
April 30 to be eligible for counting that day by
the American Arbitration Association
(A.A.A.), the independent organization that
conducted the elections.

Photo by Charles Brown

Nominations for most other Union elections
were held on March 10 at a General Member-
ship Meeting at the School of the Future in
Manhattan. Seven out of eight Moore Team
Slate candidates in the General Officer Election
were nominated and elected unopposed, as Newly elected Union officers are (bottom row, l-r) Executive Vice President Yolanda Pumarejo, President Faye
Moore, Secretary-Treasurer Joe Nazario; (top row, l-r) VP of Negotiations Anthony Wells, VP of Publicity
were all Moore Team Slate candidates in the
Michelle Conklin, VP of Organization Beverly Mallory-Brown, VP of Grievances Lloyd Permaul and VP of
elections for Trustee of the Local, Trustee of the Legislation Michelle Akyempong.
Welfare and Educational Funds, DC 37 Dele-
gate, and New York City Central Labor Coun- swept the election of 20 positions as AFSCME Membership Meeting/Delegate Assembly at
cil Delegate. (See March 2008 Unionist for Convention Delegate and 21 positions as Alter- the School of the Future. (See detailed results in
detailed results.) The Moore Team Slate also nate that was held on April 16 at a combined April 2008 issue of The Unionist.)

Thousands Demonstrate Against Cuts in

Housing Authority Funding and Against Layoffs

what’s
INSIDE
Union Rejects DCAS
Proposal
Union leaders met with City officials from the
Department of Citywide Administrative Services
(DCAS) and the Office of Labor Relations at DC
37 Headquarters on May 13 to express concerns
about the reclassification plan. (Story on page 3.)
Photo by Martin Fishgold

Celebrating the Opening of

the Union’s Archives
Over two hundred present and former Union
Photo by Charles Brown

officers, staff and activists came together at New

President Faye Moore addresses large
NYCHA rally on May 1 as State Senator
Diane Savino, former Local 371 VP, looks on.
W
York University’s Kimmel Center on April 25 in a
ith the public housing crisis in New York City
grand reunion to celebrate the opening of the
reaching epidemic proportions, thousands of
Union’s archives at the Tamiment Library/Robert
workers demonstrated at City Hall Park at noon
on May 1 against layoffs and cuts in the New York City F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU. (See story and
Housing Authority. The rally was organized by Teamsters photos on pages 4-5.)
Continued on page 6
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Stay Active, Join the Union’s

Alumni Association
N
May eal Frumkin became chair of Local 371’s singer, actor, athlete
ALUMNI MEETING, Union Office, 817 Broadway, 12th
20 Floor, 2-4 p.m.
Alumni Association in 2005. A long-time and civil rights activist.
Union activist, he ascribes to founder Sol The group also took a
DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING, School of the Gorelick’s vision of maintaining a space where trip to Connecticut to
21 Future, 127 East 22 Street, 6:30 p.m. retirees can share stories about what they are visit one of the nation’s
doing in retirement, trips they have taken and leading aquariums.
26 MEMORIAL DAY [An Official City Holiday] “how they are filling the void left from time not The Local 371 Alum-
MEETING, Union Office, 817 Broadway, 12th
28 PAC

Photo by Charles Brown

spent punching the clock.” ni Association comes
Floor, 6:30 p.m. Like Gorelick, Frumkin is leaving a personal together not only to
“stamp” on the Alumni Association’s activities: “To socialize, but also to
June bring in people to speak on issues that relate to the stay politically active.
problems retirees have and to discuss current trends “We’re involved in a
3 DOT CITYWIDE DELEGATE NOMINATION & ELEC-
TION, Union Office, 817 Broadway, 12th Floor, 6:30 p.m. in the labor movement.” Recent speakers have range of union related Alumni Associaton Chair
included Local 371 officers and members, and civil activities; I think it’s our Neal Frumkin.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, Union Office,
4 817 Broadway, 12th Floor, 6:30 p.m.
rights leaders like Dorothy Burnham, featured dur- way of keeping a hand in
ing Black History Month, who spoke about her par- union affairs after we’ve retired,” says Frumkin.
HERITAGE EVENT, DC 37 Headquarters, 125 ticipation in the Civil Rights movement in Birming- They’ve participated in anti war marches and labor
5 JEWISH
Barclay Street, 5:30 p.m. ham, Alabama. Ed Ott, Executive Director of the day celebrations. Many are also active members of
NY Central Labor Council, has also spoken, along the larger DC 37 retiree organization.
CHAPTER MEETING, Union Office, 817
9 BCW
Broadway, 12th Floor, 6:30 p.m. with Timothy Sheard, a mystery writer whose “Being retired doesn’t mean you should stop
sleuth is a union delegate at a Philadelphia hospital. being active,” says Frumkin. “You should be active
MEETING, Union Office, 817 Broadway, 12th
10 PAC
Floor, 6:30 p.m.
Other speakers have presented topics such as social in the things you have a passion for; this is a contin-
security, elder law and universal healthcare. uation of involvement at a different stage of life, in
SHELTER CHAPTER MEETING, Union Office, 817
11 Broadway, The group also organizes an annual trip. Last the struggles of working people.”
12th Floor, 6:30 p.m. year, members were led by two well-known birders The Local 371 Alumni Association meets on the
on a geography and topography tour of Sterling third Tuesday of each month at Union headquar-
13 WOMEN’S COMMITTEE DANCE & CARD PARTY,
DC 37 Headquarters, 125 Barclay Street, 6 p.m. Forest, a park in Rockland County, New York. ters, 817 Broadway, from 2 to 4 p.m. To learn more,
They also visited the New York Historical Society, join the group at their next meeting, and enjoy the
DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING, School of the
18 Future, 127 East 22nd Street, 6:30 p.m.
where members learned about the history of slav- pre-meeting lunch .
—Sarah Ihmoud
ery in New York and about Paul Robeson, the great
HERITAGE COMMITTEE MEETING, Union
19 LATINO
Office, 817 Broadway, 12th Floor, 6:30 p.m.
War, Workers’ Rights Highlight May Day Events
20 CARIBBEAN HERITAGE EVENT, DC 37 Headquarters,
125 Barclay Street, 5:30 p.m.
W orkers around the globe celebrated
International Labor Day, better known as
May Day, on May 1 to make it clear they want a
world honor workers, but it is not officially observed
in the United States, which celebrates Labor Day in
September. That historical quirk is no accident.
the world where people live in peace and prosperity.
On the U.S. West Coast, thousands of dockwork-
Ironically, “May Day” was founded by U.S. work-
ers—and taken away from them as a day to cele-
ers participated in a voluntary action by members of brate by a federal government fearful of the wave of
the Longshore Division of the International Long- large demonstrations for the eight-hour workday
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withdraw U.S. troops from the Middle East. Support Pension Legislation
Faye Moore
The dockworkers’ action drew support from
Executive Vice President workers throughout the country, including the To The Editor:
Yolanda Pumarejo Washington State Labor Council and the Martin As a delegate for many years both in HRA and
Secretary-Treasurer ACS/NYC Children’s Services and a supporter
Joe Nazario Luther King Jr. County Labor Council in Seattle.
V.P. Negotiations & Research Workers in Seattle marched along the waterfront to of the reopener of Chapter 96 (25/55) it would be
Anthony Wells
demand an end not only to the war in Iraq but also wise for all members to begin a letter writing
V.P. Organization & Education
Beverly Mallory-Brown to the war on workers, both here and abroad. campaign to the committee where the legislation
V.P. Grievances & Legal Services The Vermont AFL-CIO also endorsed the action, for the reopener is being debated. We, SSEU
Lloyd Permaul Local 371 members, are activists and have
V.P. Legislation and Political Action
saying the war in Iraq is “immoral, unwanted and
Michelle Akyempong unnecessary.” The Vermont resolution adds that always advocated for the rights of those we ser-
V.P. Publicity & Community Relations the war will only be brought to an end by “the vice in our prospective agencies. It is time that
Michelle Conklin
direct actions of working people.” every member both new and seasoned come
Trustees
Michael Ballesteros The AFL-CIO Executive Council last year together to begin a letter writing campaign to the
Yolanda DeJesus committee, the House and the State Senate to
Melva Scarborough approved a statement saying that the war in Iraq is
Editor turning into a civil war and it’s time for the United ensure OUR needs are understood and this legis-
Martin Fishgold lation is passed. Give us what the Teacher’s
States to end its military involvement there.
Director of Communications
Linda Schleicher The plight of the nation’s workers was also in the Union was successfully able to negotiate, 25/55.
Photographer spotlight on May 1. Speaking during an International It is time for us to stand together again and
Charles Brown fight for what we want and need. Let’s utilize
Metro NY Workers’ Day symposium on “Global Capital—Glob-
Editorial Associate Labor
Sarah Ihmoud Communications al Unions,” AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard our know-how, our activism and our strength
Council Trumka said the battle for workers’ rights and an in numbers. There is power in numbers; let’s
economy that works for everyone transcends politics. show our strength as “ONE”!
Visit us on the Web at www.sseu371.org May Day is the day that most nations around the —Sandi Salas, Delegate, ACS

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 May 2008

Union Rejects DCAS Proposal

U nion leaders met with City officials from the
Department of Citywide Administrative
Services (DCAS) and the Office of Labor
Relations at DC 37 Headquarters on May 13. As
reported in the April edition of The Unionist,
selection of titles to be reclassified from
competitive to non-competitive. Said
Moore, “One of the titles designated as
appropriate for reclassification is the
Child Protective Specialist title. Currently
President Faye Moore criticizes
the DCAS plan as VP Anthony
Wells and Local 154 President
Juan Fernandez look on.

DCAS has submitted a proposal to drastically there are two established lists in this title,
reduce the num- and an exam is
ber of provisional scheduled in
workers in City President Faye Moore criticized the June. How do
government with
a plan that
selection of titles to be reclassified from you come to the
conclusion that
includes reclassi- competitive to non-competitive. this title should
fication of thou- be reclassified?”
sands of jobs Moore contin-

Photo by Charles Brown

from competitive to non-competitive titles.
The meeting was the first opportunity for local
union leaders to meet with and express their con-
cerns about the plan to DCAS officials, who submit-
ted the plan to the State Civil Service Commission
on March 28. After a detailed presentation on the
merits of the plan by the Commissioner of DCAS,
the Union’s response was a resounding, “No!”
Local 371 President Faye Moore criticized the
ued, “In the Fraud Investigator title, there
are currently no provisionals, and a pro-
motional list is pending.”
VP of Negotiations Anthony Wells con-
demned the proposal, stating, “The mag-
nitude of what you are proposing has never been Section 75 (due process) rights and other benefits.
done. This plan will erode the Civil Service Merit Without elaborating, the City took the position
System and have a negative impact on unions in that the plan does not violate the Constitution.
New York City.” They acknowledged that State approval is required
The Union indicated the proposal is at odds with for the reclassification of titles, and indicated that
the New York State constitution, which mandates that public hearings must be held.

Save the Date appointments and promotions should be based on

merit and fitness, as determined by competitive
In a later development, the DC 37 Executive
Board on May 14 voted unanimously to fight the
examination “whenever practicable.” Concerns were DCAS plan.
Celebrating Jewish Heritage also expressed about the potential loss of jobs, loss of
—Michelle Conklin
on June 5
The Annual Jewish Heritage Celebration will take HRA & ACS Honor Longtime Employees
place at District Council 37 on Thursday evening, June
5, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a special meal of
Kosher Chinese food. The theme of this year’s cele-
bration is the 60th Anniversary of Israel.
The guest speaker will be Detective Morty
Dzikhansky of the New York City Police Department.
Detective Dzikhansky specializes in international
security and works out of Israel. Music will be per-
formed by Israeli singers Magna Fishman and Avram
Pengas, accompanied by a three-piece musical group.

Women’s Committee 5th

Annual Dance and Card Party
The Union’s Women’s Committee invites you to the
5th Annual Dance & Card Party on Friday, June 13
from 6 p.m. to midnight at DC 37, 125 Barclay
Street, Room1. Music will be by DJ Hollywood.
Tickets are $10. For more information contact Helen
Wilson (212) 777-9000, Lisa Turner (212) 677-
3900 or Beverly Mallory-Brown (212) 598-7057.

Caribbean Heritage Night

Local 371’s Annual Caribbean Heritage Celebration
will be held on Friday, June 20 at DC 37. Everyone is
Photos by Charles Brown

invited. See the July/August issue of The Unionist

for a story and photos of this event.

President’s Message
A message from newly elected President Faye
Moore will appear in the June issue of The Unionist.
Look for it on Page 2.
Local 371 members (top photo) were part of over 500 Human Resources Administration employees with 25 years of
service and more who were honored at a ceremony at District Council 37 on May 2. In bottom photo, Local 371 mem-
bers were among about 70 workers in the Administration for Children’s Services with 25 years of service who were
similarly honored on May 9. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Quality of Work Life Committees of HRA and ACS.
Local 371 officers and staff attended the celebrations and are pictured in the above photos.

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Thousands Demonstrate Against

Cuts in Housing Authority
Funding and Against Layoffs
Continued from page 1
Local 237 which represents 8,000 workers in
NYCHA, and was supported by a number of other
City unions including Local 371, which sent a large
contingent of Union staff and members to the rally.
Thirty eight Local 371 members in the Community
Associate and Community Assistant titles in
NYCHA have been laid off. There are close to
1,000 Local 371 members in NYCHA.
Newly elected Local 371 President Faye Moore was
one of a number of prominent speakers at the rally,
including Local 237 President Greg Floyd, City
Comptroller William Thompson, State Senator Diane
Savino, Central Labor Council Executive Director Ed
Ott, City Council Members Charles Barron, and Melis-
sa Mark Viverito, Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz, and others. Floyd introduced Moore,
who stated, “We stand in solidarity with Local
237,with the 500,000 residents of city housing, and
with the NYCHA workers.” “We want our money
back,” Moore added, referring to the $611 million that
has been slashed from the NYCHA budget by the
Bush Administration in the past eight years and to the
public money squandered in tax giveaways to the
wealthy and wasted on the War in Iraq. “They spend
$200 million a day on this war. Put the money back.”
As a result of the latest housing cuts announced by
Bush, a budget shortfall in NYCHA for fiscal 2008 of
$195 million was created, and the Housing Authority
announced it would be forced to lay off 190 employ-
ees. These layoffs cause workers to be stretched to the
point of collapse, and residents of public housing –
500,000 citizens of NYC – to be threatened with
destruction of core services. Because of Union efforts,
the actual number of layoffs was less, and some of the
workers were able to find other positions through
union-sponsored job fairs.
Photos by Charles Brown
In photo above, Community Service
Workers Chapter Chair Sadie Sanders
(left) came out to demonstrate for her
Chapter members. In photo left, Local
237 President Greg Floyd speaks and is
enthusiastically supported by President
Faye Moore.
“Even one layoff is one too
many,” said Anthony Wells,
Vice President of Negotia-
tions. “We’re continuing to
fight to find money to restore
vital services in the Housing
Authority.” According to
Wells, no additional layoffs
have been announced.
“We’re fighting for what is
just, what will serve this city
best,”said Local 237 President
Greg Floyd. “Without a
renewed financial commitment
to NYCHA, union jobs will be
lost, rent hikes for low income
tenants will skyrocket, and the dismal state of public Local 371 Alumni Association Chair Neal
Frumkin (l), Fund Trustee Rosemary Ciulla-
housing will be dealt a critical blow.”
Frisone (back center), and Organizer Amador
—Martin Fishgold Suarez (r) join other demonstrators.

Local 371 officers, staff and members gather at the rally.

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310 West 43rd St., NYC 10036
May 1- May 30.
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Multi-media exhibition: paintings, photos,
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May is Labor
History Month!
Each year, the New York Labor History Association publishes a
17x22 inch calendar listing all the events in May of that year
Tools of the Trade that are related to labor. On this page, we’ve listed all the
New York Transit Museum ongoing events and the events that will take place after the
Boerum Place & Schermerhorn St., May 2008 issue of The Unionist is printed. For a free copy of
Brooklyn, NY 11201 the NYLHA Calendar, call George Altomare at 212-598-7772.
April 22 – December 7, 2008
Tues. – Fri.: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sat., Sun.: Noon – 5 p.m. “Play It Again Sam”:
An oxygen deficiency indicator, an Lost Chords of the Labor
anemometer, a trolley ice scraper, a pneumatic Movement
drill, a high-tension potential transformer fuse Ongoing Web Exhibit
puller, fire nozzles, rail gauges, riveting tools, LaborArts.org
signal locks, a lance type high tension switch Lyrics and recordings of almost lost songs
stick, & a portable shunt – these are some of the that inspired social movements in the 1940s,
tools used to build, operate & maintain New featuring Henry Foner. FREE!
York’s subway, bus, & rail systems. $5/$3/Srs. Info: Rachel Bernstein, Henry Foner
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Splits in the Labor Movement, Then 57th Annual Sidney Hillman
and Now: C.I.O. – Change to Win Foundation Awards Presentation
NYLHA’s Spring Labor History Conference Millenium Broadway Hotel Hudson Theater
Prof. Melvyn Dubofsky (SUNY 145 West 44th St., NYC 10036. Info:
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Lawrence College), Bob Master (CWA District
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Discussion of the C.I.O.’s 1930s split from the Radical Chelsea
A.F.L. – and Change to Win’s 2005 split from Walking Tour, Bruce Kayton leads a tour
the AFL-CIO. through the West-side Manhattan neighbor-
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70 Washington Sq. South, 10th Floor. New York,
NY 10012. FREE! Refreshments served.
Info: 212.998.2630.
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The Unionist

Local 371 Union Participates in Revlon Run/Walk

L ocal 371’s Women’s
Committee again sponsored
a team in the Revlon 5k
Run/Walk for Women’s
Get Well Cancers on Saturday, May 3.
Eleven walkers and six runners
Get well wishes are extended to Lisa Conoway, CWS Sup I, represented the Union and
Office of Case Management, 150 William Street, who has been raised funds for the charities.
out sick for the past seven weeks. Get well cards may be sent to Pictured right are some of the
Lisa Conoway at 149 Ridge Road, Ridge, New York 11961. walkers and runners at the start
of the race. Union President
and Women’s Committee co-

Photo by Charles Brown

chair Faye Moore and co-chair
Helen Wilson, Associate
Congratulations Benefit Funds Administrator,
Congratulations and best wishes are extended to Charles led the group.
Ensley, President of SSEU Local 371 for the past 26 years, who
retired on May 1 after 43 years in civil service. Before he was Union Group Attends Annual Somos El Futuro Conference

L
elected president, Ensley worked as a Caseworker in Brooklyn
ocal 371 offi- ner on April 26. Pumarejo, in photo left, received
BCW, and served as a Grievance Rep in the Union Office. A cele- the Labor Award from Nazario for her contribu-
cers, staff
bration will be held in his honor on May 20. and activists, led tions to the Labor and Latino communities.
Congratulations and best wishes are extended to Arnie by Executive

Photo by Charles Brown

Goldwag, Health and Safety Coordinator at the Union Office,
who retired May 1. Goldwag began his career as an HCI
and later became a Caseworker in HRA. He came to work
at the Union Office in 1993 as the Health and Safety
Coordinator/Organizer, and quickly gained a reputation as a
tenacious enforcer of safe working conditions. He retires after
40 years in civil service.
Congratulations are extended to Hector Coto, Assistant Division
Director at DC 37, who celebrated his retirement on April 17. Coto
was an HCI at Queens General Hospital, and worked in the Union
Office as a Grievance Rep for Local 371 before going to DC 37 as
a Council Rep. He had 26 years of service.
Vice President
Yolanda When Calling in a Listing
Pumarejo and If you are calling in a classified or personal
Secretary- listing for this page, please dial 212-677-3900 and
Treasurer Joe ask for Extension 3011. If Sarah Ihmoud of our
Nazario, attended the annual Somos El Futuro editorial staff is not in, leave a message on her
Conference in Albany from April 25-27. They dealt answering machine.
with issues important to the Latino community Don't forget to leave your telephone number
like immigration and social services in workshops so she can call you back if she needs more infor-
and other special events. Governer David mation. If you are mailing in a listing, send it
Patterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, either typewritten or neatly printed to Sarah
Bronx Borough President Adolpho Carrion, Ihmoud, Publicity Section, Local 371, 817 Broad-
Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and other way, 14th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. You may
dignitaries addressed the participants at the din- also fax a listing to Sarah Ihmoud at 212-505-3011.

15-Day Election Notice Bob Thornhill, Former VP of

Official 15-day notice is hereby given for the Grievances, Dies

B
nomination and election of two (2) delegates
and four (4) alternates from the Department of ob Thornhill, Local 371’s Vice President Grievances.
Transportation (DOT) to take place on Tuesday, of Grievances & Legal Services from 1991 “Bob was one of our
June 3, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in the Union Office, to 1994 died on April 28. most respected union
12th Floor, 817 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. At the time of his retirement in June 1994, Thorn- leaders,” said Charles
hill had worked for the City for 33 years. He began Ensley, former Local 371
his career as a Social Investigator in the Veteran’s president. “Not only was
Welfare Center. Prior to coming to the Union, he he a colleague, but he was

Condolences worked for 17 years in Community Relations with

Condolences are extended to Marcella Imbert, JOS, Queens
Jobs Center, on the death of her mother, Elianne Edinborough.
Ms. Edinborough passed away on March 31, 2008. Condolences
may be sent to Marcella Imbert at 716 Ocean Avenue,
Apartment 9, Brooklyn, New York 11226.
the Office of Family Services.
a friend whose wise coun-
sel I often sought.”
Thornhill’s entire career was spent as a Union Thornhill grew up in
activist. A veteran of the 1965 Welfare Strike, he Harlem and earned a B. S.
subsequently served as chairman of the Union’s degree from New York University. He leaves Sarah
Thornhill, a former Local 371 member who he was
General Officers Election Committee, and in 1982
was elected as Chairperson of the Union’s Welfare married to for 45 years; three sons, Telford, Holden,
Fund. Under his leadership, benefits were greatly and Leighton; and four grandchildren.
expanded. He became executive assistant to the A memorial service was held on May 10 at the St.
president prior to being elected Vice President of Albans Congregational Church in Queens.

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