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DC 37 Challenges Return-to-Office Order for 80,000 'Remote' Staffers

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 9/20/21

District Council 37, which represents nearly 40 percent of the municipal workforce, Sept. 15 filed an unfair-labor-practice petition contesting Mayor de Blasio's order that 80,000 employees who had been working remotely for the past 18 months "return to work." 

The union took that action two days after that order took effect, after weeks of trying to persuade the Mayor to delay the return as the virus's Delta variant surged.

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