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.
Yonkers Profiles
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…
Melissa Goldberg
Melissa Goldberg, heads Mayor Mike Spano’s Office of Film and Photography, which is the one-stop shop for all film and photography production in the City of Yonkers. There’s no business like show business and Melissa Goldberg is helping The City of Yonkers earn the title of “Hollywood On The Hudson” Yonkers is no stranger to…
Mary Dolan
Mary Dolan is the Editor of the Journal News (Formerly The Yonkers Herald Statesman), which is being taken over by Fairport, New York’s Gatehouse Media. Mary Dolan Has survived multiple mass firings at the Gannett owned broadsheet as she rose, in February of 2019, to be the editor of what is left of the regional…