Teamsters Local 237

NY Times: Inside a Rikers Island Kitchen, Dull Knives and Critical Jobs

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.  Read about the Local 237 members featured in a recent article.

Cook Kay Fraser. Photograph by Brittainy Newman, New York Times.

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THE CITY: Cuomo Gets Endorsement From City Government Workers’ Union

Teamsters Local 237, whose members provide school security and staff public housing, touted the former governor’s record as a builder primed to address the city’s affordability crisis. By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY

Photo Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
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Pre-Retirement Online Seminar April 16 & 17

Attention Tier 4 and Tier 6 Members in the Following Plans:  62/5, 55/25, 57/5, 63/5, and Special SPO Plans


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"Reaching Out with Gregory Floyd"

President Floyd hosts a weekly half-hour public affairs radio program. Tune in Saturdays on AM970 The Answer at 2:30 and 9:00pm and on AM570 The Mission at 4:30pm, unless preempted by a sports event. The show can also be seen on Local 237's website, YOUTUBE and FACEBOOK social media platforms.

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Teamsters Local 237’s Executive Board 2025

Teamsters Local 237’s Executive Board was sworn-in January 23, 2025 for another 5-year term.



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Dec 2014/Jan 2015

Dec 2014/Jan 2015

Our Future Begins with a Solemn Oath

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Hoffa, third from left, stands with newly sworn in board members. They are, from left, Edmund Kane, trustee; Ruben Torres, secretarytreasurer, President Gregory Floyd; Richard Hendershot, vice president, Jeanette Taveras and Curtis Scott, trustees; and Patricia Stryker, recording secretary.

Guests, including many elected officials, filled Local 237’s union hall on Jan. 17 for the Installation Ceremony that kicked off the next five-year term for President Gregory Floyd and six executive board members. James P. Hoffa, general president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, officiated, and George Miranda, vice president at-large, IBT, and president, Joint Council 16, served as master of ceremonies. The Rev. Robert Royal of St. Paul Baptist Church delivered the invocation.

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Floyd Testifies at Hearing on NYCHA Lighting

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President Gregory Floyd is joined at City Council by David Jones, president and CEO of Community Service Society, center, and Victor Bach, senior housing policy analyst, CSS.

President Gregory Floyd testified at a City Council oversight hearing on the relationship between lighting and safety at New York City Housing Authority in the wake of the Akai Gurley shooting. The hearing was held on Dec. 16.

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Atascada Primera Negociación con NYCHA

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Miembros del comité de negociaciónes prestan atención.

Rompiendo con lo tradicional, Shola Olatoye, presidenta y ejecutiva principal de la Autoridad de Viviendas de la Ciudad de Nueva York, no asistió a la primera reunión de negociación que tuvo lugar Diciembre 10, 2014 en la sede del Local 237. También, la gerencia se abstuvo de presentar alguna propuesta. En su lugar, el Comisionado Laboral de la Ciudad, Bob Linn, solicitó al comité “apretar el botón de reajuste” en cuanto a relaciones obrero-patronales, y el Gerente General, George House dio un resumen de las malas condiciones económicas de NYCHA.

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