Citywide Division School Food Service Manager District 23, Brooklyn
Cherise Neal has been a school food service manager for more than seven years. She has also been a shop steward for one year with Local 237 and 5 years with Local 832 until the merger last year. Her mother, Karen Neal, is a cook in District 4.
Julian Friedman, went to work as a laborer for the New York City Housing Authority in 1949. In 1951 he passed the maintenance man test and was hired at Bellevue Hospital, where he remained until he retired in 1984, serving a brief stint as shop steward.
It seems today you cannot turn on the news without hearing a politician talking about “reform,” or “change.” Most of their ideas are welcome. Albany is certainly in need of serious reform. Barack Obama famously cam- paigned on the slogan of change, which he has brought about in a more positive way than critics give him credit for.