Former city tow driver, union continue scrap

In rare instance, PERB remands unfair labor practice claim to city officials

Ed Seabron became a NYPD traffic enforcement agent in 2000, joining District Council 37’s Local 983 and working for more than 20 years as a city tow truck driver. 

But in May 2021, Seabron quit the union, citing a dissatisfaction with how he had been represented and frustrated by his attempts to affect change within the local. Together with a colleague from a different union, he began soliciting signatures from other members to decertify Local 983 and join the Independent Law Enforcement Benevolent Association, itself founded just a few months before by Seabron’s colleague David Casey.