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Public
Employee Press Letters
to the editor
Exterminate
pay gap
Good day, I am an Exterminator licensed by New
York State. I work for the Dept. of Correction, and I share the same job title
with the Exterminators at the New York City Housing Authority.
I and my
fellow Exterminators in Local 768 demand to know why the NYCHA exterminators make
$10,000 more then we do.
The risks I take (contact with inmates) and the
services that I provide (protecting health and safety by containing rodents and
insects such as bed bugs for officers, inmates, and civilian employees) mean that
we should be making more or at least equal pay with the exterminators at NYCHA.
What do we do?
Frank Williams Exterminator, Local 768
Editors
note: The union is aware of this unfair situation and is working hard to raise
the pay of DC 37 Exterminators.
Parent Coordinators
poem on the DOE My wife is a teacher and UFT member, and
I am a former Dept. of Education Parent Coordinator and union member who often
finds himself reading your publication.
One good fruit that I feel my experience
at DOE bore was the following poem, which speaks of our experience as professionals
within the system.
This poem is dedicated to the brave but unfortunate
souls in the DOE as well as to the students who are being served inadequately
by the system.
NYCDOE
With Dreams of growing into a strong
tree, a forest, The young sapling was too soon truncated; Uprooted like
a weed, despite being a flower, Aborted like a bad seed Never to grow apples
or knowledge Of good and evil, Banished from the Garden of Eden, From
amidst the fires of Hell itself, Cast out into the world to Find better
ground not Covered by permafrost. Oh Heaven...oh well... The
result only time will tell, But I know NYCDOE, its our
loss!
Francis Lora
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