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December 22, 2006
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Overcomes Strike Fallout: Toussaint Stays on the Train
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
Transport Workers’ Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint survived the fallout from a three-day strike that led to severe penalties against the union and its members, as well as uncertainty about the fate of a contract that was not issued until after the ballots were in, to defeat four opponents... More...
City Steps Inadequate: Seek Body to Look At On-Job Injuries
By REUVEN BLAU

Public-employee union officials and health advocates last week urged the Bloomberg administration to create a new oversight agency and take additional steps to help reduce the thousands of reported workplace injuries each year. The city appeared open to several of the suggestions discussed at a De... More...

TWU Arbitration Same Deal In Different Form; 10.5% Hike, Pension Refund, But Make Health Co-Pay
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

Veteran arbiter George Nicolau Dec. 15 issued a contract award for Transport Workers’ Union Local 100 that included 10.5 percent in raises but requires members to pay 1.5 percent of their earnings toward health-benefit premiums. Declaring it “essentially the same deal” that had been agreed to by b... More...


Jail Captains’ Head Meringolo Retiring: A Battler Ready for Last Bell
By REUVEN BLAU

Correction Captains’ Association Peter D. Meringolo began his career in labor after he was wrongly accused of stealing bail money as a new Captain more than 20 years ago. At the time, his union delegate suggested he accept a reduced penalty to avoid a potentially drawn-out disciplinary hearing. “S... More...


Early UFT Pact Gains Approval By 9-1 Ratio
By RICHARD STEIER

United Federation of Teachers members overwhelmingly approved their new two-year, 19-day wage contract, with a Dec. 14 tally showing 90 percent voted in favor of ratification. The main features of the pact are raises totaling 7.1 percent with compounding, a $750 cash payment, and a $1,000 longevit... More...


Violating ‘Comp’ Policy?: City Tries to Limit Disabled Doctor Visits
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

More than a dozen retired Emergency Medical Service employees who receive Workers’ Compensation benefits from the city have gotten letters from the Law Department limiting the number of doctors’ visits they can make each month. The letters authorize the EMS workers, all of whom retired after suffe... More...


 Editorial
•A LESSON FOR BOTH SIDES
The reactions of Transport Workers’ Union Local 100 and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to last week’s contract arbitration award seemed designed to prove Yogi Berra wrong: It ain’t over even when it’s over. Following the release of the award by arbitration panel chairman George Nicolau,... More...
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 Editor's "Razzle Dazzle" Column
•Razzle Dazzle: ‘Busfellas’ Wheel is Turning
If Federal prosecutors are to be believed, candidates for president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 have had a much easier time dealing with their electorate than, say, those aspiring to run Transport Workers’ Union Local 100. In the case of the temporarily deposed incumbent, Sal Battaglia... More...
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 Letters to the Editor
•Letters to the Editor: Fault Library on Pay
To the Editor: I want to add my voice to that of newly elected Local 1930 President Carol Thomas that what is needed at the New York Public Library is “Pay fairness for all titles” (Dec. 15 story). My administration pressured library management toward this goal for all titles, but management wou... More...
•PENSION ECONOMIZING
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 Professionals' Column
•Current Pension Topics: City Plans Top TRS’s, HHC’s
“Secure Your Future” is a column written by the three Teacher-Trustees of the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York. The column is a regular feature of the New York Teacher, the house organ of the United Federation of Teachers. In the Oct. More...
•YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
•Ask the City Ethicist: Public Servants’ Second Jobs
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 Civil Service Exam Stories
•BUS MECHANIC, LIGHT REPAIR JOBS OFFERED $23.80 an Hour for Both Jobs; File by Dec. 26; Construction Insp., Elevator and TEA Posts Available
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is accepting applications until Dec. 26 for exams leading to Light Maintainer and bus mechanic jobs at New York City Transit. That is also the last date to apply for five other hiring and promotion jobs. The open-competitive titles and their start... More...
•Will Fill Jobs: CITY CERTIFICATIONS
•207 Eligibles: Watershed Cop List Released
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