Barry McGoey, is the president of the International Association of Firefighters Yonkers Local 628 and he is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with elected officials in Yonkers Yonkers is the home to Westchester County’s largest fire department and Barry McGoey is an outspoken ally for Local 628 members and other unions in the city. Barry…
Category: Union Leaders
Edward Doyle
Edward Doyle is the President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Westchester and Putnam Counties. He spent decades as vice president and business manager at Teamsters Local 456. Edward Doyle has been urging the mayor of Yonkers to requiring developers whose construction projects receive city tax breaks to hire union workers.
Louis Picani
Louis Picani has been the president of Teamsters Local 456 since 2016 as he looks after the interests of nearly 6,500 members, including many Yonkers public employees. Lou Picani joined the union more than three decades ago and was appointed as its business agent in 2005.
Lionel Turner
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…