Founded in the early 1970's as a professional organization, OSA became the official collective bargaining agent for Analysts in the Board of Education in 1985. Since then, OSA has won collective bargaining rights for previously unorganized New York City employees in the remaining City agencies, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), and the Transit Authority (TA).

OSA is a member of and bargains collectively through the Municipal Labor Committee, a coalition of unions representing the majority of New York City employees.

OSA is committed to organizing the unorganized. We are currently seeking to represent Administrative Staff Analysts at Levels II and III in all City agencies. We recently became the collective bargaining agent for Systems Project Leaders and Senior Management Consultants in HHC.

OSA is governed by an elected nine-member Executive Board.

Chairperson	Robert J. Croghan
Vice-Chairperson	Thomas Anderson
Treasurer	Wilfred St. Surin
Grievance Officer	Kimberly Vann
Corresponding Secretary	Jeanne O'Sullivan
Recording Secretary	Jay W. Warshofsky
Delegates-at-Large	Kathleen Gray, Ronald Lehman, Dolores Parson

Also part of the OSA "family" is the Organization of Staff Analysts and Related Titles (OSART), an affiliated professional organization for City employees who wish to participate in all service-related aspects of the union other than collective bargaining.

OSART Executive Board

Chairperson	Robert J. Croghan
Vice-Chairperson	Alfred Milton
Treasurer	Michael Falzarano
Grievance Officer	Sandra O. Thompson
Corresponding Secretary	Sherman Gould
Recording Secretary	John Harper
Delegates-at-Large	Cirino Lotta, Barry Mandel, Alice Moise

What Is An Analyst?

Analysts are individuals who are employed to break complex matters down into their component parts to enable greater understanding. So in the broader world, there are psychoanalysts, chemical analysts, financial analysts, and terrorism analysts. In New York City government, we are analysts who are on staff, therefore staff analysts.

The Analyst title job description provides New York City agencies enormous management flexibility; the job duties of the average Analyst change frequently with the needs of his/her agency.

Analysts for the Traffic Department are in the street checking traffic flow. Analysts in Welfare Centers verify work done and design improved systems. Analysts edit agency publications. Analysts approve contracts and do staff training. Analysts do audits and write procedures. They design forms and do personnel work. They write grant proposals and devise time-keeping systems. Analysts design computer management information systems. They study infectious diseases for the Department of Health, arrest reports for the Police Department, community development for the Department of City Planning, air quality for the Department of Environmental Protection and how much money remains after doing all these things for the Financial Information Services Agency.

All Analysts have one common denominator in their daily work. They help City government do its work well.