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Public Employee Press
Local 1407 trains
members for advancement Local 1407 members are jumping at the opportunity to advance
their careers by climbing the civil service ladder and improving their professional
credentials.
Dozens of members took a recent course the local offered to
prepare them for the Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner test in October and
another course to learn about the challenging process for obtaining credentials
as a certified public accountant.
In September, Local 1407 President Maf
Misbah Uddin, who is also treasurer of DC 37, visited the classes to encourage
the members, who are working hard to advance their careers.
Greeting Local
1407 members taking the retirement examiner class at Murray Bergtraum High School
on Sept. 20, Uddin said a major goal of the locals educational push is to
help members become permanent civil servants.
Over seven years, Local 1407
hasreduced the percentage of provisional workers it represents from more than
75 percent to less than 25 percent by pressing the city to hold civil service
exams and encouraging members to take prep courses, Uddin said.
The
reason to take the exam is not only to improve your professional opportunities
but also to get permanent civil service status, Frederick R. Lewis, an assistant
director with the DC 37 Education Fund, told members at the Assistant Retirement
Benefits Examiner course, which wasarranged by the fund.
Local 1407 member
Sterlyn Alexander, an Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner at the New York City
Employees Retirement System, taught the course.
Local Vice President Jed
Matalon accompanied Uddin on the visits to the classes. | |