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February 9, 2007
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The city's lauded after-school program has managed to enroll more children at a lower cost in part by paying low wages and offering few benefits to the program's workers. A report released last week praised many aspects of Mayor Bloomberg's three-year, $200-million investment in the Out of School ... More...
Demands Improvements

The flood of new money for schools in Governor Spitzer's Jan. 31 budget proposal drew a warm welcome from education unions, but the plan fell short of their wish lists, which included a bigger emphasis on lowering class size and a substantial boost in City University spending. More...

Say City Squeezing Them

After three fruitless mediation sessions, the Captains' Endowment Association contract is headed to arbitration, a process that the union has steadfastly avoided since a bad experience in the early 1990s. "I'm on record being opposed to arbitration," said CEA President John F. Driscoll in a Feb. 1... More...


The Bloomberg administration Feb. 2 sued the Public Employment Relations Board, seeking to force the state agency to designate the chairperson of the arbitration panel handling the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association contract. More...


Union, Parents Question Rationale

Niquan Riley does not understand why, with millions of dollars pouring into the city's education and child-care coffers, the city is shutting her son's day-care center. Riley's 5-year-old son, Nakai Walker, will have to find a new place to go by Feb. 23 when the Irving Place Day Care Center, locat... More...


The Fire Department last week officially pulled the plug on porn, issuing an order Jan. 30 that clarified and strengthened an existing ban on "inappropriate materials" in fire houses. More...


Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch is lashing out again, this time at our supposed lack of fairness. On page 7 of this issue, a full-page ad from the union head accuses us of being a "management mouthpiece" in our editorials and claims that this bias even spilled into a news st... More...
"I don't think anybody was more shocked by the decision of that jury than I was," Detectives' Endowment Association President Mike Palladino said Jan. 31, the day after Federal jurors decided that Ronell Wilson deserved the death penalty for the 2003 murders of Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney ... More...
To the Editor:
I am responding to your article entitled, "DC 37 Board Key Battleground," (Jan. 19 issue), where District Council 37's executive director, Sister Lillian Roberts, wants the executive board vice presidents' voting strength to be proportional to the number of members each local represents, instead o... More...
Did you know that the Department of Education of the City of New York (DOE) sponsors three voluntary salary reduction investment plans under Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code? This is ridiculous. The specific 403(b) Program an employee is eligible to join depends on whether or not he/she ... More...
Starting Pay Is $34,329; 2,000 Posts Available; Need H.S. Diploma To Apply; Written Test Set for April 14
The state Department of Correctional Services is accepting applications until Feb. 26 for an exam leading to Correctional Officer positions. The starting salary is $34,329, which rises to $41,348 upon completion of the eight-week training program and one-year probationary period. More...

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