The Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed a petition for arbitration with the Public Employment Relations Board Jan. 23 that contained a contract offer considerably downgraded from the one transit workers rejected by seven votes two weeks ago.
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Officials at the city’s Health Benefits Program last week discovered that health insurance deductions from January pension checks for approximately 11,000 municipal retirees did not reflect a rate reduction. More...
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Vito Fossella Jan. 25 called upon the Federal Government to appoint a “9/11 health czar” to oversee monitoring, screening and testing of health problems among those who worked at Ground Zero. More...
By RICHARD STEIER
When election ballots were tallied Dec. 27 for Health Service Employees Local 768 of District Council 37, the local’s election committee halted the count with incumbent President Darryl Ramsey leading by 10 votes over challenger Fitz Reid, stating that 21 unopened ballots came from nonmembers. More...
Follows Inmates’ Assault: Court Unions Lash Out at Jails Chief