Shirley Aldebol Democrat for City Council 2025

<img src="https://run.imgix.net/3443e6c6-f5a7-4fe1-ad79-0b356950bab2/11819b67-8ef6-4794-9e6d-e253a6348c9a/11819b67-8ef6-4794-9e6d-e253a6348c9a.jpeg?ixlib=js-3.8.0&amp;bri=0&amp;con=0&amp;sat=0&amp;high=0&amp;shad=0&amp;usm=0&amp;rect=0%2C217%2C2000%2C2478&amp;w=1500" alt="" caption="" align="right" alignwidth="37.5" tiltdirection="left" variant="framed">Shirley Aldebol was born and raised in the Bronx by her mother and stepfather who migrated here from Puerto Rico. Her mother held numerous jobs to support Shirley and her siblings — everything from working in restaurants to piece work– sewing together pieces of fabric at home for pay.&nbsp; Eventually, Shirley’s family was able to open a small business: a bodega in Soundview where Shirley grew up helping her parents behind the counter after school. Her parents bought a home in Throggs Neck 45 years ago when Shirley was a senior at Cardinal Spellman High School. Her first job out of college was working as a child welfare caseworker for New York City. She quickly became involved with her union, SSEU Local 371, and hasn’t left the labor movement since. Two years into working for Local 371, Shirley was promoted to Executive Vice President.&nbsp; She then volunteered to assist AFSCME in organizing public employees in Puerto Rico. AFSCME then named Shirley as Organizing Director in Puerto Rico, where she led and won a campaign to attain collective bargaining rights for public employees. Shirley also served as AFSCME’s Northeast Regional Director, leading the entire East Coast from Maine to Puerto Rico.&nbsp; Shirley came to 32BJ SEIU in 2004, where she stayed for over two decades, up until launching her campaign for the City Council. Throughout her tenure at 32BJ, some of Shirley’s biggest accomplishments were standing up to big landlords to secure fair contracts for commercial building service workers, winning higher wages for custodial workers in New York City public schools, and successfully negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement for service workers at New York and New Jersey airports. Shirley also served on the board of directors of the New York Economic Development&nbsp; Corporation where she advocated for responsible development that creates good family-sustaining jobs. Shirley has spent her entire career fighting and winning for New York City’s working people, and as a native Bronxite who grew up in a working-class family, Shirley also understands the challenges facing working families as a single parent and homeowner here in Throggs Neck for the last 12 years. She has seen the city she’s spent her entire life in become more and more unaffordable for regular people just trying to make ends meet.&nbsp; Now, Shirley is running for the City Council because it’s time to stand up! We don’t have to accept skyrocketing housing costs, underfunded public services, and low wages that aren’t even keeping up with inflation. As our Councilmember, Shirley will fight for a better, fairer, safer, and more affordable New York that works for everyone, regardless of income or zip code.

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Shirley’s Top Issues

New York City is facing an affordability crisis. The cost of housing is out of control, everyday essentials like groceries are becoming more and more unaffordable, young working families cannot afford the cost of quality childcare, and families that have lived in their neighborhoods for generations are being forced out. Shirley will work to expand affordable housing, strengthen protections for tenants, improve access to quality healthcare including mental health care, and increase wages to put more money in the pockets of working families. The increasing cost of child care is a major factor in the affordability crisis. It puts a strain on working families who are ineligible for voucher programs yet still struggling to make ends meet. Shirley will fight for funding universal child care for New York's working families. She will advocate for child care programs to receive the funding they need to operate and pay childcare workers and early childhood educators a sustainable wage and benefits. Shirley will work to create affordable homeownership programs for middle-income and working class families so they can afford to buy homes and stay in their neighborhoods. Shirley will also fight to improve access to affordable health care, including continuing to make hospital pricing more transparent and high capping high hospital prices that prevent many working families from accessing care. No family should have to decide between their health and their essential needs like food and rent. Shirley will create more affordable preventive care facilities in our neighborhoods and work with private and public hospitals to create incentives to recruit and retain our essential health care workers.

Shirley will work to increase access to truly affordable childcare, expand affordable housing, strengthen protections for tenants, improve access to quality healthcare including mental health care, and increase wages to put more money in the pockets of working families.

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Affordability

As a lifelong labor leader and organizer, Shirley understands the challenges that working people in the Bronx face. Every worker deserves good wages, fair contracts, quality health care, and safe working conditions. As our City Councilmember, Shirley will push for policies that support workers in our city, including better pay, strong benefits, and safe workplaces. She’ll also work with her colleagues on the City Council and in Albany to create more good-paying jobs and invest in tech, vocational, and apprenticeship programs to get more New Yorkers into stable employment and on a path to the middle class.

As a lifelong labor leader and organizer, Shirley understands the challenges that working people in the Bronx face. Shirley will push for policies that support workers in our city.

Good Jobs

All students in New York City deserve to get a great education, regardless of their zip code or their family’s income. Shirley will advocate for increasing funding for our neighborhood schools, investing in the community school model, expanding access to after school and early childhood education, and working to provide students with the resources they need to succeed. Many of our school buildings are old and are in constant need of repair and maintenance: Shirley will work to fund our school facilities to ensure that schools are healthy and safe places for students to learn. Shirley will also fight to increase funding for CUNY to provide accessible, affordable higher education to a diverse population of New Yorkers and create a path for economic mobility for New Yorkers from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

All students in New York City deserve to get a great education, regardless of their zip code or their family’s income. Shirley will advocate for increasing funding for our neighborhood schools.

Great Schools

Having close family members who have had lifelong struggles with their mental health, Shirley has seen first-hand how we’re letting these vulnerable members of our community slip through the cracks. Shirley will advocate for expanding school-based mental health services to provide children and their families with resources at a young age instead of allowing them to reach adulthood with no support or treatment. She will also work to remove barriers to get struggling New Yorkers into supportive housing, and increase funding for more community-based mental health services.

Shirley will advocate for expanding school-based mental health services to provide children and their families with resources at a young age instead of allowing them to reach adulthood with no support or treatment.

Mental Healthcare

Everyone deserves to live in safe communities. As our City Councilmember, Shirley will deliver solutions that address the root causes of crime: strengthening our neighborhood services and providing people with the resources they need to thrive, not just survive. Shirley will invest in good-paying jobs, fully funded public services, parks, libraries, recreational centers, and after school programs for our youth. And she will make sure that law enforcement has the tools and resources they need to keep our communities and transit system safe. Shirley will also work to improve quality of life in our neighborhoods, including by closing illegal smoke shops and keeping our streets and business corridors clean.

Everyone deserves to live in safe communities. As our City Councilmember, Shirley will deliver solutions that address the root causes of crime.

Public Safety 

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Shirley is running for the City Council because it’s time to stand up! We don’t have to accept skyrocketing housing costs, underfunded public services, and low wages that aren’t even keeping up with inflation. As our Councilmember, Shirley will fight for a better, fairer, safer, and more affordable New York that works for everyone, regardless of income or zip code.

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