After years of staffing cutbacks, Mayor Bloomberg March 21 announced that the city would be hiring an additional 800 new cops and 400 administrative workers for the NYPD. More...
A March 23 ruling by the Public Employment Relations Board that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Transport Workers' Union Local 100 should settle their contract dispute through binding arbitration won't hinder the union's plans to hold a re-vote. More...
A lawsuit brought by the Injured Workers' Pharmacy against the city's Law Department has been settled out of court, THE CHIEF-LEADER has learned. More...
United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten celebrated a decision by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court ordering the state to increase funding for the city's schools by between $4.7 and $5.63 billion annually over the next four years, along with an additional $9.179 billion More...
Firefighters at Engine Co. 155 and Ladder Co. 78 in Staten Island hosted a special lunch March 23 for a contingent of New Orleans firefighters and their wives. More...
A story in last week%27s issue about Debbie Reeve, a Paramedic who died of cancer March 15 at age 41, featured a detail that made her passing seem even crueler. More...
Nicholas Guido was a telephone installer who aspired to be a civil servant. He was on the hiring lists for Firefighter and Sanitation Worker when he was murdered on Christmas Day 1986 because he was mistaken for a mobster who was about his age and had the same name. He was 26 years old. More...
To the Editor: Buried inside Ainsley Stewart%27s book-length letter last week was the preposterous assertion that the post-strike transit settlement was worth many millions less than the offer on the table before the strike. This is so false and so destructive that it must be answered. To accept it More...
In my column of March 17, 2006, G.J. asked me to explain Final Average Salary for a Tier 4 member of the New York City Employees%27 Retirement System. More...
Calls City Unreasonable: Jail Capts. Union Seeks Arbitration