32BJ Vice Presidents
Assistant to the President
 KYLE BRAGG
VICE PRESIDENT
Kyle Bragg is Vice President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
Kyle directs operations for the union’s residential members in New York City, as well as Westchester County and Long Island, implementing 32BJ’s strategies and programs on member representation and services, contract bargaining, political action and union growth.
In March 2008, he led a successful campaign for a new three-year contract that dramatically improved health care, increased wages and secured retirement benefits for more than 3,000 Bronx residential building workers. Kyle also plays a key role advocating for “New York Safe & Secure,” the union’s campaign to professionalize New York’s private security industry.
A member of 32BJ for more than 26 years, Kyle is a trustee of several 32BJ funds and serves as chair of the union’s social and economic justice committee. In 2001, he led the merger with Local 32E, bringing 9,000 Bronx and Westchester members into 32BJ.
Kyle was appointed by Gov. David Paterson to the Security Guard Council of New York State and also serves as Vice President of the African American Caucus of SEIU (New York Chapter) and as a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council. He is a member of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the New York Urban League and the New York Chapter of the NAACP. Kyle sits on the Board of Directors of Project Reconnect, a Queens-based youth program and is the founder of the Mount Zion Youth Literacy and Sports Program in Queens, an organization that builds literacy and introduces underprivileged youths to golf, tennis and other sports that are normally cost-prohibitive.
Kyle attended York College of City University, where he began his activism in the labor movement as a member and shop steward of 1199. He lives in Queens with his wife and three children.
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 GEORGE J. FRANCISCO
VICE-PRESIDENT
George J. Francisco is Vice President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
George J. Francisco, Jr. is currently serving a third term as President of the National Conference of Firemen & Oilers which affiliated with 32BJ of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) effective July 1, 2008 and is now The National Conference of Firemen and Oilers District of 32BJ, Service Employees International Union (NCFO, SEIU). The NCFO represents men and women employed in building services, food processing, hospital care, manufacturing, public sector, railroad industry and utilities. George was elected to this post in January 1998. Previously he served as NCFO Secretary-Treasurer.
In addition to his responsibilities as NCFO President, George serves as a Vice President on Local 32BJ’s Executive Board; a trustee of SEIU’s Affiliates’ Officers and Employees Pension Plan; and a trustee of the SEIU Affiliates’ Officers and Employees Supplemental Retirement Savings (401K) Plan. He is a founding trustee of the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust. He is also a trustee of the National Conference of Firemen & Oilers’ National Welfare and Pension Funds. He is Chairman of the Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition and a member of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee.
He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Dubuque and has received many honors and awards for his services and accomplishments over the years and a certificate in the Fundamentals of Money Management Workshop at the Wharton School of Business—University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Francisco is married to Patricia Francisco and raised two sons, Jimmy and Michael.
 LENORE FRIEDLAENDER
VICE PRESIDENT
Lenore Friedlaender is Vice President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
During her 20 years as an organizer with SEIU, Lenore has led Justice for Janitors, hospital and public sector campaigns across the country. Previous to her current position, Lenore served as Local 32BJ’s Organizing Director and as chair of the Local’s Westchester District. As Organizing Director, Lenore is credited with building the union’s capacity to carry out large scale organizing campaigns and founding the Local 32BJ Summer Youth Brigade program, which introduces young people to the work and mission of the union.
Lenore has worked in the labor movement, as a rank and file activist, organizing committee members and union leaders. She was an active member of a committee to organize clerical workers in the Philadelphia court system and worked in a bubble gum factory as member of the Bakery, Confectionary & Tobacco workers union, where she successfully helped women gain access to male-dominated work in the factory.
Lenore currently lives in Queens where she has been involved in many community and political efforts. She is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States in the 1930’s to escape Nazi persecution.
 BRIAN LAMBERT
VICE PRESIDENT
Brian Lambert is Vice President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
In his role as commercial division leader for the union, Brian helps ensure standards on wages, health care and pensions are met throughout Local 32BJ’s jurisdiction. Brian coordinates negotiations, bargains contracts and maintains relationships with employers and property owners. As the union moves toward master agreements covering larger geographic regions, the goal is to standardize union contracts, enabling members across different regions to benefit from higher wages, health care, training opportunities and secure pensions.
Brian has been with Local 32BJ for nearly 27 years. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Director for District Operations and in 2003 was elected to serve as Vice President; he was re-elected for a second three-year term in September 2006. He is a trustee of Local 32BJ’s New York City benefit funds and the window cleaners’ pension fund, and serves as a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council. Brian sits on the board of directors for Outreach Project, a substance abuse program for adolescents, and also serves on the board of governors for the Diabetes Research Institute.
A native of West Islip, Long Island, Brian graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport.
He worked as a night watchman at the Empire State Building and in building maintenance for other New York City buildings before being hired as a Local 32BJ business agent in 1982. He lives in Westchester County with his wife, Patricia, and three school age children, Karina, Keith and Kelly.
 VALARIE LONG
VICE-PRESIDENT
Valarie Long is Vice President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
Valarie directs union operations for the 32BJ's multi-state region, including the DC Capital Area which serves 15,000 members in Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia, as well as another 15,000 in Pennsylvania. The union is leading efforts to win increased training, living wages, and better benefits for the predominantly African-American private security officers who protect commercial office buildings in Washington, DC and for other security officers in Washington, DC as well as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wilmington.
In collaboration with the SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign, the DC Capital Area District - formerly Local 82 - led a 10-year fight in Washington, D.C. to bring better wages, benefits and respect on the job to the workers who clean buildings throughout the nation's capitol.
Under Valarie's leadership as president of the local, 5,000 new property service workers joined the union in DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
A 25 year veteran of the labor movement, Valarie serves as a Vice President of SEIU.
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 LARRY ENGELSTEIN
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
Larry is Assistant to the President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU), New York’s largest private-sector union and the country’s largest property services union. The union represents more than 120,000 property service workers -- including cleaners in offices, schools, stadiums, arenas and institutions; superintendents, doormen and maintenance workers in residential buildings; security officers, food service workers and other service workers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
Larry also serves as 32BJ's Director of Collective Bargaining and Employer Relations throughout the union’s nine state operation. In that capacity, he directs the union's collective bargaining, works with its associated benefit funds and coordinates relationships with major employers. Larry has previously served as 32BJ’s Chief of Staff and General Counsel.
Prior to coming to then Local 32B-32J in 1999, Larry worked with the SEIU Property Services Division in its organizing activities throughout the country, and with the AFL-CIO, in its legal department.
A graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Wisconsin, and New York City public schools, Larry lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.
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