• Grievance gets $11,000 for City Parks Worker
• Lawsuit wins back pay for Clerical Associate
• State board bans unilateral change in schedule by school management

• Labor mobilization beats right-wingers at polls Nov. 8 as DC 37-backed judge wins in Brooklyn
• Union and HHC fight federal Medicaid cuts
• Obama & Biden meet with local leaders
• DC 37 celebrates Italian Heritage
• Contracting IN beats contracting out
  • City two-faced on contracting rules
  • Private deals versus patient care at HHC
  • EXPIRED: Privatized parking meters
• Grim holidays for laid-off members
  • OTB retirees and jobless families suffer
  • Union sues DOE to reverse layoffs
• "Who's going to hire a 67-year-old?"
• "This is going to be a rough holiday."
• "The students need help even more now."
• "There will be no gifts under our tree."
• Local activists study at leadership academy
• Young workers meet to strengthen unions
• Labor defeats Wisconsin-type attack in Nassau County
• Labor movement and U.S. wars: Combat and protest
• The horror, the horror: Ghostly ghouls invade DC 37
• Recession's littlest victims
• Course on history of public workers' unions
• Train show 30% off for members
• Breast cancer walkathon: DC 37 members march for a cure
• NYC Politics: Wages and pay discrimination are top electoral issues for labor
• Afghanistan war: Working-class communities suffer greatest wartime casualities
• Members at legislative conference demand: Fair share tax on the rich
• Medicaid changes threaten DC 37 jobs
• A presidential videographer
• Local 1549 nixes a new task in evaluators
• THE WORLD OF WORK: The 1% and the rest of us
  • New York's jobs crisis

• Civil service groups honors SSEU Local 371 president
• Hazel T. Underwood, long-time activist and clerical rep, passes at 89
• Local 375 DOT chapter celebrates "Festival of Lights" holiday, Diwali
• Roberts honored for lifetime achievement
• Coming Events

• Letters to the editor
• The vibrant media of Occupy Wall Street

PEP photos by Clarence Elie-Rivera, unless otherwise indicated.