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Union leaders and tenants urge more safety investments and relief for public-housing utility bills
Summary
AFSCME Local 44 and tenant advocates called on the city to fund safety equipment, training and facility improvements after two sanitation worker deaths and recounted public-housing tenants facing large utility bills and eviction threats.
Union leaders and tenant advocates used Taxpayer Night to press the Board of Estimates for investments in worker safety and to seek relief and transparency for public-housing residents facing large utility charges.
Dorothy Bridal, president of AFSCME Local 44, which represents thousands of frontline city workers, said the union lost two sanitation workers to on-the-job tragedies in 2024 and called for increased safety…
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