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“Road to Success” Youth Complete Summer Program at Local 237

President Gregory Floyd, the Education and Training Division, and staff of Local 237, hosted a program at 237 headquarters for the participating students to mark the completion of their summer internship.   
The participants from the 2019 Summer Youth Employment Program were provided by the organization Roads to Success. Roads to Success is dedicated to helping young people discover the self-esteem, self-reliance and empathy necessary to become future leaders and driving forces of positive change.  

All nine of Local 237’s interns were high school or college students, and ranged from the ages of 16 – 21. They interned from from July 8, 2019 to August 16, 2019.

Through teaching and mentorship, Local 237 taught the students about importance of unions.  Individual students were assigned a mentor that provided guidance on their future career goals. Among other activities, students appeared live on the “Reaching Out with Gregory Floyd” radio show and attended legal disciplinary hearings.

These young people will be our future union members and advocates. We wish them every success!

Local 237 Mourns the Loss of Officer Ramos

Our union is devestated  by the senseless deaths of officers Wenjian Lui and Rafael Ramos. Our prayers and thoughts are with the families of these honorable officers, particularly the family of officer Ramos, a former School Safety Agent and Local 237 member. Officer Ramos will be remembered by our union as a courageous officer and loyal union brother. Together, we mourn these tragic losses.

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NYCHA Task Force

Local 237 NYCHA Task Force Report Prompts Action
Housing Authority responds to Task Force

Last fall, Teamsters Local 237 President Gregory Floyd convened the first meeting of the Local 237 NYCHA Task Force to tackle the many long-standing issues plaguing the agency. The Task Force, comprised of Local 237, community groups, and resident leaders, was created to formulate ideas on how NYCHA can better serve its residents and staff.

In late 2012, the Task Force released its first set of recommendations to NYCHA Chairman Rhea.

The major areas for which the Task Force provided recommendations are as follows:

• Disaster preparation
• Streamlining operation processes, including repair appointments
• Improving and overhauling the centralized call center
• Nurturing existing institutional knowledge and resources
• Making critical health and safety improvements in daily operations
• Ensuring that eligible Section 8 holders are not mistakenly terminated.

The ideas for the recommendations came from a number of knowledgeable sources, but among the most useful were those provided by Local 237 members working at – and in some cases living in – the Housing Authority. The Task Force report provides realistic and timely recommendations to improve the failing facilities and make them better places to work and live.

Weeks after presenting our recommendations to the agency, Chairman Rhea and Mayor Bloomberg announced a major new initiative to tackle the backlog of repairs at NYCHA. They included a number of the Task Force's recommendation, such as making sure enough quality material and equipment are available to do the repairs, coordinating the scheduling for work of various skilled trades, and hiring additional labor to perform the work.

Task Force members believe that NYCHA's announcement is a good first step. We will continue to meet in order to issue additional recommendations and monitor progress at NYCHA.

The New York City Housing Authority is largest public housing system in the nation, with over 400,000 residents and 12,000 city employees (many of whom also live there), and was once a source of great municipal pride. But now, with a 2-year backlog of repairs, major security and safety concerns, plus a management team not well versed in the nuances of public housing, NYCHA has become a troubled overseer of “assets” forgetting that real people live and work there.