Teamsters Local 237 Executive Board
Gregory Floyd, President
Richard Hendershot, Vice President
Ruben Torres, Secretary-Treasurer
Patricia Stryker, Recording Secretary
Edmund Kane, Trustee
Steve Gordon, Trustee
Curtis Scott, Trustee
Citywide Division
The Citywide Division represents 11,000 members in over 160 different Civil Service titles. The members work in all Mayoral agencies, the Health and Hospital Corporation, the Board of Education and the Board of Higher Education.
Members seeking assistance from union representatives can call the Local's emergency 24-hour hotline any time, seven days a week, at (212) 924-2000.
The division holds semi-monthly meetings for members to communicate directly with Local 237 Board members and representatives. This enables our Union to address and engage any problem or issue that is of concern and importance to our members.
Citywide Titles
| Citywide Division Business Agents & Areas of Representation |
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Al Soto
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School safety agents, Manhattan South; Department of Health police, Manhattan; evidence and property control specialists, Office of Chief Medical Examiner and NYPD Manhattan.
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Steven Gordon
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School safety agents Brooklyn North and Brooklyn South; hostlers in Brooklyn.
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Felecia M. Parker Cannon
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 Department of Corrections institutional titles only: assistant laundry supervisors, bakers, commissary managers, senior cooks, cooks, food-service administrators and managers, supervising housekeepers, senior housekeepers, housekeepers, institutional garment workers, institutional seamstress, institutional tailors, laundry supervisors senior bakers, senior meat cutters, and meat cutters. Also, educational facilities officers Level 1 and 2, and district guards.
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George Serrano
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Campus peace officers, all boroughs; special officers, Department of Homeless Services, Human Resources Administration, Susan Smith McKinney; parking control specialists and supervisors, all boroughs; inspectors, Taxi & Limousine Commission.
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George Wade
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 Custodians, store titles, Health and Hospitals Corporation and institutional titles, except for Department of Corrections: senior cooks, cooks, food service administrators and supervisors, supervising housekeepers, senior housekeepers, housekeepers, laundry supervisors, assistant laundry supervisors, senior bakers, bakers, commissary managers, institutional garment workers, institutional seamstress, institutional tailors, senior meat cutters, meat cutters; HHC technician titles: EEG, EKG, radiographer all levels, nuclear medicine all levels, ultrasound technician titles, X-ray technician titles. |
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Charlie Cotto
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 Special officers in district attorney offices all boroughs; school safety agents in Bronx East and Bronx West |
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Carol Harry
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All HHC special officers: Coney Island, East New York Diagnostic, Elmhurst, Queens, Jacobi, North Central Bronx, Sea View, Cumberland, Kings County, Woodhull, Lincoln, Harlem, Belvis Center, Morrisania, Bellevue, Metropolitan, Coler-Goldwater, Gouverneur, Roberto Clemente, Sylvia del Villard, Judson Health Center, and Brooklyn Laundry.
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Mal Patterson
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 Associate food-service supervisor and school food-service managers, Department of Education; school safety agents, Queens North.
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Randy Klein
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 Maintenance workers all boroughs; maintenance control handlers; water use inspectors; pipe-laying inspectors; bridge titles; supervisor of traffic device maintainers; asbestos handlers; blasting inspectors; refrigeration mechanics; cement masons and mason helpers; bricklayers and supervisors; plasterers and supervisors; roofers and supervisors; elevator mechanics and supervisors and elevator helpers; horseshoers; senior photographers and photographers; all professional titles: assistant directors, Bureau of Public Health Education; associate public information specialists, editorial assistants, information assistants, public health educators, public health education trainees, public relations assistant, senior intergroup relations officer, senior public health educators, and supervisors of traffic safety education; all skilled trades grievances and disciplinary actions. |
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Charles Mussa
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 School safety, Staten Island, Queens South and Manhattan North; hostlers, except Brooklyn; Evidence and Property Control Specialists in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island; special officers, Department of Juvenile Justice and Administration for Children’s Services. |
Housing Division
The Housing Division represents 8,000 titles working for the New York City Housing Authority and the Skilled Trades titles.
Housing Titles
Housing and Citywide: Grievances and Disciplinary Issues
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Civil Service Bar Association
The Civil Service Bar Association affiliated with Local 237 in 1972. It represents almost 900 Local 237 attorney and law student members in both competitive and non-competitive class legal titles. Members work in almost all Mayoral agencies, the Housing Authority, and the Transit Authority. The members defend, enforce and adjudicate many of the laws that are essential to the well-being of the citizens of this city.
216 West 14th St.
7th Floor
(212) 675-0519
Long Island Division The Long Island Division of Local 237 is located in Islandia, New York. The Division is responsible for over 3000 members who work in the towns of Babylon and Islip, Suffolk County, as well as various other school districts, villages and libraries. The Division handles at least 19 different contracts, and can be reached at (631) 851-9800. 1727 Veteran's Memorial Hwy. Suite 308 Islandia, NY 11749 Long Island Titles
| Union Liaison |
| Joanne Mazza |
Brentwood Schools Nurses |
631-434-2244 |
| John Catania |
Brightwaters |
631-665-4646 |
| Robert Shafer |
Center Moriches |
631-878-0052 |
| Michael Prisco |
Half Hollow Hills |
631-592-3855 |
| Lynn Platt |
Half Hollow Hills (Food Svc.) |
631-592-3507 |
| Marie Ferrara |
Islip Housing Authority |
631-589-7100 |
| Lenny Donato |
Islip Resources Recovery |
631-472-7051 |
| Marilyn Capone |
Lawrence Schools |
516-295-7082 |
| Pat D'Avanzo |
North Babylon Nurses |
631-321-3261 |
| Samuel Ferrandino |
North Babylon Schools |
631-321-3245 |
| Joseph Diemiche |
Plainview Schools |
516-349-4793 |
| Gerry Napoli |
Plainview Schools
Teacher Aides) |
516-937-6392 |
| Rich Lautato |
Port Jefferson Schools |
631-476-4444 |
| Rosemary Mora |
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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.
Director of the Housing Division
Deputy Director,
Deputy Director,
Brooklyn East (blue collar titles)
Citywide
Bronx/Manhattan
Queens (Blue Collar titles)
Citywide
Grievance Coordinator
Grievance Coordinator
Long Island Area Director
Secretary
Brentwood School District
Islip Housing
Suffolk County OTB titles
Assistant Division Director