NYCOSH

Maureen LaMar, Associate Director

Maureen LaMar serves as NYCOSH’s associate director, helping to direct the organization’s day-to-day activities and long-range planning. Her responsibilities include: developing and coordinating advocacy campaigns; training and education programs, and other NYCOSH initiatives. Maureen also oversees the organization’s grant planning and activities, and supervises program staff. She came to NYCOSH in early 2008 with 20 years experience in the labor movement, starting as a rank-and-file activist. Her accomplishments include creating and directing worker education programs for unions that include TWU Local 100, 1199SEIU, the former ILGWU, and UNITE HERE! At TWU Local 100, which represents workers in the New York City subway and bus systems, Maureen was also instrumental in establishing and running a training fund. Her  achievements additionally include creation of a literacy program for hospital workers at risk of losing their jobs, and a model, multi-tiered program in which classes in ESL and industry skills became a vehicle for garment workers to become more engaged with their union and to take leadership roles.