After close to three years of sporadic and fruitless negotiations, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's contentious contract dispute with the Bloomberg administration is finally headed towards a resolution, with arbitration hearings set to begin next week.
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Tout Pay at Javits
By REUVEN BLAU
For Lieutenant Gov. David A. Paterson, helping the State Police's current recruitment drive was a personal decision. "When I first moved to Albany, I roomed with a State Trooper," he said, referring to his early days as a State Senator beginning in the mid-1980s. "I learned a lot about how the State Police work. More...
By MEREDITH KOLODNER
Home day-care providers voted to join the United Federation of Teachers last week by an overwhelming 99-percent approval margin. About 30 percent of the eligible 28,000 workers returned their mail ballots and voted 8,382 to 96 to become UFT members, concluding the city's largest unionization drive in 40 years. More...
Debate How to Make Impact
By MEREDITH KOLODNER
A panel of five powerful women last week tried to rescue the substance of the word "feminism" from the dustbin of politically unacceptable rhetoric. Speakers at a morning forum held at New York University's Wagner Graduate School expounded upon the difference between men and women in elected office and at the bargaining table. More...
By ARI PAUL
Transport Workers Union Local 100 will hold elections in its Private Lines Queens Division in a month's time, THE CHIEF-LEADER has learned. Local 100's executive board appointed Queens Division Vice Chairman and LaGuardia Depot Chairman Enzo Sinnona as Private Lines Division Vice President Aug. 27, causing a vacancy in his old posts. More...
DC 37, Council Still Apart on Residency