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Teamsters Local 237 Factsheet
- Teamsters Local 237, also known as City Employees Union
Local 237 Teamsters, is a diverse union representing more than 23,000
public employees in New York City and Long Island.
- The union is the largest local in the 1.4 million-member
International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
- Founded May 2, 1952.
- Local 237 services:
- Over 11,000 members who work in NYC agencies, Health and Hospitals
Corporation's public hospitals, the Board of Education, and the
City University of New York. The membership covers more than 100 civilian
and law enforcement titles, including school safety officers, x-ray
technicians, taxi and limousine inspectors, attorneys, cooks, hospital
police, campus police, elevator mechanics, bridge operators, masons,
health educators, photographers, Juvenile Justice police and skilled
trade workers.
- 10,000 members who work for the New York City Housing Authority and
the Jacob Javits Convention Center in a variety of titles, including
heat plant technicians, groundskeeper, caretakers, maintenance workers,
managers, superintendents, tellers, and skilled trades workers, cleaners
and stockroom workers.
- About 3,000 members on Long Island who work for the towns of Islip
and Babylon, for Suffolk County OTB and in several school districts,
villages and local libraries. These members are maintenance workers,
school nurses and other school employees, library workers, biologists,
harbor police, lifeguards, animal rescue workers and airport public
safety officers, and public housing workers.
- About 7,300 retirees in the United States and Puerto Rico.
- Affiliations & Membership:
- Local 237 has its headquarters in Manhattan at 216 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011. Tel.: (212) 924-2000. The union also has an office on Long Island.
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Local 237 Factsheet