CSEA Unit 9169 Yonkers School District President Lionel Turner is responsible to 1500 Yonkers union members
Lionel Turner was able to save each and every CSEA 9169 union job that was threatened two years ago by Mayor Mike Spano and the city council’s proposed budgets
He did this without having to give up one benefit or previously negotiated right.
Lionel Turner was raised in #Yonkers since 1966.
He went to P.s 25 and the to Gorton Jr High School graduating in 1977 and then went to Delaware State College and City College.
Lionel Turner is former entrepenuer who owned the Hideaway bar and has worked at the Yonkers Board Of Education for 22 years.
Lionel Turner has been the President of Yonkers CSEA 9169 and the 1st Vice president CSEA local 860 for over seven years.
CSEA 9169 is the largest union in Yonkers.