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DC 37 White Papers identify waste
DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, at City Hall on Feb. 25, discusses the
union’s new white paper, which identifies 10 instances in which the city
could save nearly $130 million by replacing contracted workers with civil servants.
From left, City Council member Letitia James, Roberts, and District Council 37’s
Treasurer Maf Misbah Uddin, Secretary Cliff Koppelman and Associate Director Oliver
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examination of NYC's contracting out of public services found that the city wastes
$9 billion in taxpayer dollars on more than 18,000 contracts -when city workers
could perform the same jobs for less and with more accountability. - June
2010 PEP: How to fix broken budgets - Cut contracting out, raise revenue
- Recently, DC 37 released a four-page update on its 2009 white paper, "Massive
Waste at a Time of Need." The new 2010 report, "A Better Way to Balance
the Budget," reveals that the Bloomberg administration plans to raise spending
on outside contracts by more than $250 million to $9.5 billion in fiscal year
2011, which begins on July 1, 2010.
- May
2010 PEP: Mayor Bloomberg's budget: $2.9 billion deficit
- With the threat of devastating service cuts and up to 19,000 layoffs under Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg's doomsday budget for 2011, our bleak financial times demand
that NYC consider new sources of revenue and bring in outstanding taxes and uncollected
fines, which total at least $2 billion.
- April
2010 PEP: Three worst rip-offs
- Three cases exposed by DC 37 and the media demonstrate the pitfalls of doling
out projects to contractors for work that union members could do more effectively:
CityTime, Emergency Communication Transformation Project and School Payroll System.
- April
2010 PEP: Bloomberg raises contract budget
- With layoffs and service reductions looming, the Bloomberg administration plans
to increase its wasteful spending on contractors and consultants next year. Spending
on contracts would increase from $9.2 billion in the current 2010 fiscal year
to $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2011 if the mayor's preliminary budget is adopted.
- February
2010 PEP: Citytime contract 1,000% over budget
- DC 37 leaders blasted a 1,000 percent cost overrun on a computer contract -
still unfinished after 12 years - that the city gave to former Giuliani officials
with ties to the Bloomberg administration.
- January
2010 PEP: Roberts: Feds should investigate the mess at 911
- DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts called for federal and local investigations
of the city's problem-plagued 911 Emergency Response System and demanded a thorough
audit of spending on the project to merge the police, fire and ambulance call-taking
and dispatch systems.
- December
2009 PEP: Consultants botch call center project
- The city's $1.3 billion plan to upgrade its 911 system has become a gold mine
for contractors but a black hole for city taxpayers. The Emergency Communications
Transformation Project is running two years behind schedule, and a $730,000 cost
overrun has raised its price to $2 billion. Mismanagement and conflicts of interest
plague the contracted-out plan to merge the Police, Fire and Emergency Medical
Service call-in and dispatch operations into a single system.
- October/November
2009 PEP: Contracting out wastes millions as schools lay off workers
- With mass layoffs of school workers looming, the new Panel for Education policy
voted Sept. 14 to renew a $54 million no-bid deal with computer consultant Future
Technology Associates on a project that civil servants could to at a lower cost.
- September
2009 PEP: Contracting OUT wastes money, Contracting IN saves
- Examples of the waste involved in contracting out at the NYC Dept. of Education
and on temp agencies citywide, and the money and jobs saved at the NYC Dept. of
Transportation and the New York Public Library by letting DC 37 members do the
work.
September
2009 - NYC Board of Education Employees Local 372 Radio Ad Against School Layoffs:
- Hear school children talk about the
dedicated school employees who helped them, but who now face layoff at a time
when private consultants and outside contractors are funded by $9 billion of the
city's $60 billion budget. The radio ads ran on 1010 WINS, WBLS, WCBS, WWRL and
WKRS. (mp3 format) For details, click
here.
- September
2009 - Social Service Employees Union Local 371 Video Against Administration for
Children's Services Layoffs:
- SSEU Local 371 President Faye Moore and Local 371 members speak up for New York
City's vulnerable children who, like Nixmary Brown, could be at risk if 500 ACS
workers are laid off. Their message: "Our children should always come first."
They ask the public to call Mayor Bloomberg at (212) 788-0268 and tell him to
save these essential jobs.
- July-August
2009 PEP: Mobilize!
- Hundreds of members enlisted to be the frontline troops in a citywide mobilization
to combat contracting out, protect public services and save jobs.
- June
2009 PEP: Shadow government wastes millions – Contractors, consultants and
corruption. The city’s growing reliance on contracting out municipal
work without government oversight causes a huge waste of taxpayers’ dollars,
say union and other critics of the practice.
- May
2009 PEP: Union hits contracting out in schools system
- The Dept. of Education contract budget for the next fiscal year is $3.3 billion,
accounting for more than a third of the New York City's contracting-out expenditures.
- April
2009 PEP: Massive waste at a time of need -
A new DC 37 white paper identifies 10 cases where the city could save about $130
million by eliminating wasteful outside contracts and highly paid consultants
doing municipal work, which costs taxpayers a total of $9 billion citywide.
- April
2009 PEP: Dump contractors, hire Job Training Participants -
Only 90 minutes after DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts unveiled the new
white paper about the $9 billion "shadow government" of consultants
and contractors, a City Council hearing explored the union proposal to replace
outside custodial contracts with workers from the city's Job Training Participant
program.
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DC
37 Radio Show - March 29, 2009 - The White Paper: Massive Waste at a Time of Need
- DC 37 Assistant Associate Editor Henry
Garrido and the Director of DC 37's Blue Collar Division Jose Sierra discuss how
the City can save over $130 million by ending contracts to an unelected and unaccountable
"shadow government" of private contractors and outside consultants.
(mp3 format)
- Press
Coverage: Recent NYC and NYS press coverage on this issue
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