Ruben Torres, Local 237 Executive Board Vice President, and in his capacity as Assistant Director on the Human Rights and Diversity Commission for the IBT, was in Selma, Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary — March 7, 1965 — of the fight for the right to vote denied to Blacks in that state. That day was known as “Bloody Sunday” because the peaceful protesters were met with violence by state troopers, deputies and men on horseback as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The Special Services Section Team did a phenomenal job during an unannounced scanning on Thursday March 6, 2025. Team members confiscated a total of 90 weapons at Cooperative Tech in Manhattan North Command. Never has such a feat been accomplished in one day!
Kwani O’Pharrow is sworn into office by NYS Attorney General Letitia James as the new Assemblyman’s proud wife holds the bible.
Kwani O’Pharrow is a member of Teamsters Local 237, having served as a security guard at Brentwood school district. Prior to that, O’Pharrow was an NYPD Detective, who retired from the force. In addition, O’Pharrow was on the presidential security detail guarding both Presidents Obama and Trump.
Daniel Siciliano went to work for the city as an assistant bridge operator in 1966 at the Willis Avenue Bridge in the Bronx. At the time, the workers had a different union. After hearing about contract gains Local 237 was winning for its members, Siciliano and some of the other bridge workers decided they wanted to be represented by the Teamsters.
Three students, three families ripped apart. One student is dead; one critically wounded and the other awaits trial. Yet, at a community meeting with Mayor de Blasio, Chancellor Farina and what was termed “parent leadership”, the horrific incident involving a fatal stabbing and a critical wounding inside a Bronx school of two students by another student, who claimed he had been bullied by the two for a long time, never touched on a core question: How did a knife get into a classroom?
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