The Bloomberg Executive Budget & the Early Learn Awards
May 23, 2012
By Raglan George, Jr. District Council 1707 Executive Director AFSCME International Vice President
Again Poor Management & Planning For the City’s Children and Families
After reviewing the ten-year reign of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the only ones who could be pleased by his administration’s policies regarding the “non-essential persons” living in the city could only be the very, very rich and the extremely powerful. The administration’s unbridled dismantling of the social service infrastructure will be well remembered because it occurred during the worst recession since the Great Depression beginning in 1929.
New Building for DC1707
December 27, 2011
By Bendix Anderson
District Council 1707 just gave itself a seven-story Christmas present. Union officials cut a red silk ribbon December 22, to open their freshly-renovated headquarters at 420 West 45th Street. Their new home includes a day care center, a Head Start program, an auditorium and lots of office space.
Probable Reasons Why Mayor Bloomberg Attacks Child Care
March 12, 2012
By Raglan George, Jr. District Council 1707 Executive Director AFSCME International Vice President
In Mayor Bloomberg’s 2012 Preliminary Budget he wants to eliminate nearly 16,000 preschoolers from child care. Coupled with his ill-conceived Early Learn Plan, the Mayor wants to eliminate still another 10,000 children from care.
District Council 1707 Headquarters Ribbon-Cutting Thursday December 22nd at 5PM
December 21, 2011
Around Town – By Neal Tepel
District Council 1707 AFSCME is set to have a ribbon-cutting event for its new headquarters Thursday December 22 at 5 PM at 420 West 45th Street in Manhattan. DC 1707 represents 25,000 non-profit employees in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County. The union is now housed in a seven-story building in Clinton with new and expanded services for its members, including a larger auditorium, expanded educational facilities and room for growth.
Global Protests - Austerity and Alienation
January 9, 2012
By Thomas J. Mackell Jr
Austerity measures do not turn economies around. They exacerbate a slow growing economy and, in fact, contribute to a continuing slow down. They alienate the 99%. One only has to look at Europe and the Middle East to learn that lesson. Throughout the globe, people are clamoring for change and their protesting has attracted public sympathy.
DC 1707 and City Testify at Hearing
December 15, 2011
By Marc Bussanich, LaborPress City Reporter
Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council agreed to provide $82 million this year in one-time funding to avoid cuts to child care subsidies. But Sarah Vecchiotti, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Child Care and Head Start, told Senator Diane Savino at a hearing on December 12 that because of the lack of additional federal stimulus dollars, there is uncertainty about how the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) will be able to subsidize child care in Fiscal Year 2013.
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