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March 2, 2007
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New York State's highest court ruled Feb. 20 that public employees don't have an automatic right to union representation during conferences with their supervisors that could lead to disciplinary action. The 4-2 decision surprised and angered union officials, who have long argued that their members... More...
TWU to Hold Re-Vote

The election monitor for Transport Workers' Union Local 100 has ordered a re-vote for vice president of the union's Car Equipment Division, nullifying previous results that gave the hotly-contested seat to the One Union slate candidate over a Rail and Bus United challenger. More...

Foes Intensify Opposition

City unions and elected officials pledged their support for a Federal bill to make union organizing easier, while opposition groups ramped up their campaign last week to defeat it. A prominent labor leader said support of the bill will be essential for any candidate for President in 2008 seeking s... More...


The acting chairman of the Public Employment Relations Board contended last week that the Bloomberg administration cannot force its agency director to designate the chairperson of the arbitration panel handling the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association contract. More...


Survivors Tell Stories During Tours

Fire Lieut. Robert Johann, formerly of Rescue Company 21, shares the story of the Captain who never made it home. Teacher Eileen Lugano-Duffell talks about her son, Sean, who died on the 89th floor of Tower Two. More...


Fire Department officials acknowledged last week that the agency had considered the possibility of making Emergency Medical Technician certification a job requirement for candidates wishing to take the Jan. 20 written exam for Firefighter given by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services... More...


District Council 37 and the Government Employees Hospital Association won a $24 million settlement in a class-action suit against a major pharmaceutical company for falsely marketing an AIDS treatment drug. The agreement, announced Feb. More...


Public-employee unions are pushing for a Taylor Law amendment to guarantee members the right to have a union representative present at any conference where they might face discipline - a right they believed they had until last week. A majority on the State Court of Appeals concluded that because ... More...
The perils to union members when conservative elected officials appoint "strict constructionists" to the judiciary were vividly illustrated in last week's ruling by the State Court of Appeals that the Taylor Law does not guarantee employees the right to representation at conferences where they migh... More...
To the Editor:
Cops know only too well what the process of decomposition can bring. Actually, cops are starting to sense that bad smell again, and that's because it's contract time. The only result that the last decade of contract negotiations between the cops and the City of New York has created is advancing the... More...
Q.: My friend Ralph will be retiring on June 1 and needs to make a decision. He is age 60 and has a choice of a taking a partial lump-sum settlement of $176,922 from his former employer's pension plan. If he takes the lump sum, his annual pension will be reduced to $81,192. More...
Starting Pay Is $26G; Written Exam June 9; 2,000 Hirings Likely; Need H.S. Diploma To Be Hired
Filing is open until March 27 for an exam leading to Sanitation Worker jobs, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services said. The starting salary is $26,000, which rises to $30,811 after six months, and $57,392 after 5-1/2 years. The multiple-choice test is set for June 9. More...

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