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Lou Albano, Tech Guild Ex-Leader, Dead At 87

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 5/1/17

Louis G. Albano, who during 17 years as president of the Civil Service Technical Guild presided over a rare period of tranquility in a notoriously-turbulent union but wound up being ousted in a bitter battle emblematic of the turmoil then plaguing its parent union, District Council 37, died April 26 at age 87.

A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, who lived first in Bensonhurst and later in Park Slope, he passed away at the Atrium Assisted Living Center in New Jersey, according to his son-in-law, Charles Spinardi.

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