Gregory Floyd

Gregory Floyd serves as the President of Teamsters Local 237, IBT. As the largest local in the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237—with nearly 24,000 members—represents a diverse group of public employees in New York City and on Long Island, with job titles that span the spectrum of public service from School Safety Agents, to NYCHA Caretakers, to Public Hospital Police, to Civil Service Attorneys, to name just a few. Mr. Floyd has been a committed and dedicated union member since joining Teamsters Local 237 more than 33 years ago. His strong leadership abilities enabled him to advance from a hospital police officer position to the rank of captain with the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), making him the youngest hospital police captain in the HHC’s history. In 1994, Mr. Floyd was appointed Local 237’s deputy director for peace officer titles by President Carl Haynes and in 1999 he became director of Local 237’s Citywide Division. In January 2003, Mr. Floyd was elected to serve as trustee on Local 237’s Executive Board. A year later, he won election as the union’s secretary-treasurer and was also appointed chief negotiator. In March 2007, Mr. Floyd was elected to serve as the union’s 5th president and, in October 2009, he was elected to his first full term. In October 2014, Mr. Floyd was overwhelmingly elected to serve another term. In April 2015, he was appointed to serve as an International Trustee on the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). In June 2016, Mr. Floyd was elected Vice President-at Large by the General Executive Board of the IBT. Mr. Floyd also serves as a trustee to the Board of New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the nation, with assets of $41 billion. Additionally, Mr. Floyd is a vice president of the New York State AFL-CIO and the New York City Central Labor Council, as well as secretary of the Municipal Labor Committee and the recording secretary of the Executive Board of Teamsters Joint Council 16. He was also recently cited by the Institutional Investor as among the “40 most influential people in the battle to decide the future of U.S. pensions.” Mr. Floyd is a featured columnist for both the Amsterdam News and HuffPost, and the host of a public affairs program on radio station 970 AM, “Reaching Out with Gregory Floyd,” which airs in New York City and on Long Island on Time Warner and other cable TV systems.