District Council 37

These employees are wildly rude and incompetent. I arrived at DC37 vision center to schedule an appointment since I was in the area already. The lady greeted at me by staring at me until I said hello. She then said I couldn't schedule an appointment then but I could call the following Monday and schedule for October (it was mid Sept, ok?). No explanation as to why this is this case. I asked her if I could use my prescription I already had, and not only could she not answer the question but she indicated that it was not part of her job to know this...? Seriously. So I called on Monday. Even though my voucher expired 10/05, an employee told me I could not schedule on 10/01 because it "was too close to the expiration date" (again, really?) she was unable to explain this reasoning. I then called the optical plan people, who had no clue why the vision center was refusing to schedule me, and agreed that they probably just don't know how expiration dates work. AVOID IF POSSIBLE.

Fortunately, it's free though the union and that is why they get a single star.

Largest NYC Health Care Municipal Employees Union!. Yaay!

I have always been pro union but the pathetic conduct, condescension and lack of regard for the concerns and issues of union members by the "leadership" at DC 37's local 376 and the General Council's office for DC 37 makes one understand why so many people hate unions and want to bust them. My uncle, Helmet Golatz, founded the Labor Studies Department at Penn State decades ago and worked with all the big union leaders for many years. He believed in supporting labor and at that time he felt unions were doing a good job. Were he privy to my husband's experience with Local 376 and the conduct of DC 37's Steven Sykes and Robin Roach in the General Council's office, I'm sure he'd be rolling over in his grave! In my opinion, the behavior of these trusted officials is shameful!!