In “Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains,” author Kerri Arsenault melds the legacy of unregulated corporate exploitation and the history of her Acadian ancestors’ expulsion from Canada into a devastating indictment of the environmental pollution that impacted her hometown and its workers – including her own family.

Right after she was assaulted at the Euclid Job Center, a Local 1549 member decided "enough" -- she had to take a stand against workplace violence. And for drawing the line, she ended up spending the night in jail.

DC 37 and many locals are pressing management on air testing and protective measures to answer members’ concerns about the air they are breathing in buildings near ground zero in lower Manhattan.

Because no pest control firms have bid for the work this year, NYC may draft public employees, including DC 37 members, to spray for mosquitoes that cause West Nile virus.

Friday, April 13, was a real horror show for clerical and blue collar workers at the Dept.of Environmental Protection’s North 15th Street Yard near the East River in Brooklyn. That’s when the stench of dying rats, poisoned by exterminators, drove union members from the building.

After a 10­-year battle by labor and its allies, a new federal job safety regulation on ergonomics took effect Jan. 16. Ergonomics means tailoring the job to human needs to avoid injuries.

DC 37 took two significant legal actions last month to press the city to strengthen safeguards for members who work at or near the World Trade Center disaster site and related locations.

A Local 376 Watershed Maintainer, 43, drowned in the Bronx on March 4, 2001, when rushing water pulled him down a drainage pipe in the Jerome Park Reservoir. At the time, he and co-workers were working to prevent West Nile virus outbreaks.