Vision & the Union

Consider that District Council 37 had fewer than 1,000 members when Jerry Wurf took over its leadership in 1952, and that it ultimately embraced a multiethnic, multiracial mix of locals, from laborers (Local 924), to hospital employees (Local 420), Museum of Natural History employees (1559), New York City psychologists (1189), accountants, actuaries, and statisticians (1407), park attendants (1505), Metropolitan Museum of Art employees (1503), all representing members with varying degrees of ...