Meet Executive Board Member Recording Secretary Cheryl Evans

Meet Executive Board Member Recording Secretary Cheryl Evans

Without the Union’s Plans, I Wouldn’t Have Been Able to Care for My Family  By Kelly Hartog Cheryl Evans was elected last October to the AFSCME 3090’s executive board as recording secretary. After 28 years in the union working for the City of Los Angeles’ police department, and the union being there when she went…

Meet Leticia Loredo

Meet Leticia Loredo

Secretary, Central Traffic Division, LAPD Leticia Loredo, 58, remembers the exact day she joined AFSCME 3090. “It was back in the day,” she said with a chuckle over the phone. “It was July 10, 1989.” In her three decades working for the City of Los Angeles, Loredo has worked as a secretary in various departments,…

Meet Edwina Hunter

Meet Edwina Hunter

Secretary, LAPD During her nearly 20-year career with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Edwina Hunter, 57, has seen it all – the crime lab, the substation at Los Angeles International Airport, the patrol division and different bureau stations. She’s bounced around in administrative roles throughout LAPD, but in October she found a home as…

Meet Norma Graziano

Meet Norma Graziano

Senior Administrative Clerk, LAPD Norma Graziano, a senior administrative clerk in the LAPD’s records and identification division, often finds herself arguing with co-workers over the importance of being a part of a union. “They say, ‘what does the union do for us?’” To Graziano, the answer is obvious. “I’m a strong believer in unions because…

Meet Sharon Domitorio

Meet Sharon Domitorio

Police Service Representative, LAPD When Angelenos dial 911 with an emergency – or even a barking dog or illegal parking complaint – it’s dispatchers like Local 3090 member Sharon Dormitorio on the line ready to help. During each eight-hour shift, Dormitorio fields over 100 calls, dispatching the appropriate response units and calming callers down. With…

Meet Albert Nelson

Meet Albert Nelson

Police Service Representative, LAPD “We’re the lifeline of the public”, Albert Nelson says, “and if they didn’t have us, they’d have mayhem.” He’s probably right. For nearly three decades, Nelson has been with the LAPD as a police service representative (PSR) filling various roles, including spending 20 years as a 911 dispatcher answering emergency calls…

Meet Maria Reyes

Meet Maria Reyes

Senior Administrative Clerk, LAPD Personnel Dept. Maria Reyes found her niche on the personnel team at the Los Angeles Police Department three years ago after transferring from the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department, where she was also a Local 3090 member, serving as an administrative clerk and working the phones since 2004. “Most…