Useful Links and Contacts

Amalgamated Employee Benefits f/k/a Alicare (CSBA’s Welfare Fund Administrator for everything except prescriptions):  1-866-647-4617

Teamsters Local 237 Welfare Fund (CSBA / Aetna Prescription Drug Administrator): 1-212-924-7220

ASO SIDS (CSBA’s Dental Plan Administrator): 1-800-537-1238

Citywide Agreement

Personnel Rules and Regulations of the City of New York

NYC Personnel Services Bulletins (PSBs)

NYC Office of Labor Relations (“OLR”)
22 Cortlandt Street, New York, NY 10006; 1-212-306-7200
Deferred Comp & Flexible Spending: 1-212-306-7760

NYC Employee Assistance Program (“EAP”): 1-212-306-7660; 250 Broadway – 28th Floor, New York, NY 10007; eap@olr.nyc.gov

NYC Office of Payroll Administration

Citywide Occupational Safety and Health (“COSH”): 1-212-669-8825

Public Employee Safety & Health (“PESH”) Bureau of the NYS Department of Labor
PESH Complaint Form

Occupational Health & Safety Administration (“OSHA”)

Teamsters Local 237: 216 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011; 1-212-924-2000

Local 237 Health & Safety: smcquade@local237.org; Pension Counseling: preretirees@local237.org; Membership Department: jstokes@local237.org.

NYC Employees Retirement System (“NYCERS”): 1-347-643-3000

Loan Forgiveness for Public Service Employees

Student Borrower Protection Center https://protectborrowers.org

Coalition to Preserve PSLF

National Student Debt Forgiveness Center

Green Book (online searchable edition)

Laws of New York

State of New York (website for all state agencies)

New York State Assembly

New York State Senate

Center for New York City Law (CITYADMIN Decisions from City Agencies)

New York City Council

Cornell Legal Information Institute

FindLaw

Library of Congress:  The world’s largest library, including the Law Library of Congress)

New York City Bar Association: 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036; 1-212-382-6600

New York State Bar Association

Office of Court Administration: 25 Beaver Street, Room 840, New York, New York 10004; 212-428-2800

Rules of Professional Conduct

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator

The Chief (Weekly Civil Service Newspaper)

Teamsters International

New York Central Labor Council

Labor Unions and the Internet

NY1 (NYC-only news)

1010 WINS news

CNN

NPR news