AFSCME’s DC 37 Fights NY City Laundry Privatization

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.afscme.org/publications/29101.cfm

September 9, 2010

New York City’s largest public employee union, DC 37, is once again fighting to prevent the outsourcing of laundry services for most of the city’s public hospitals.

At stake are the jobs of approximately 150 Brooklyn Central Laundry (BCL) workers, including 70 represented by Municipal Hospital Employees Union Local 420 (DC 37).


TAKING A STAND – Members of Municipal Hospital Employees Union Local 420 (DC 37) take to the streets in August to bring attention to their fight to stop outsourcing of public hospital laundry services.

Photo Credit: Clarence Elie-Rivera

The latest skirmish – in a battle that has lasted over a decade – will take place before the New York State Supreme Court. The union filed a lawsuit on Aug. 25 against the city and its Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), which runs the BCL.

The fight is also being waged publicly. The day the lawsuit was filed, nearly 300 members of DC 37 and other unions rallied in front of HHC’s Manhattan headquarters to stop its privatization plans.

FULL story at link.