
By REUVEN BLAU
Police Officers said last week that they supported the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's hard-line approach to continue pursuing a new contract via arbitration, despite the just-announced Firefighter accord, which if ratified would temporarily place cops' maximum salaries even further behind the...
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By GINGER ADAMS OTIS and RICHARD STEIER
Union leaders who are bargaining with the city as part of a uniformed coalition were disappointed and angered by the March 2 announcement that the city had reached a tentative contract deal with Uniformed Firefighters' Association President Stephen J. Cassidy on behalf of his 8,900 members. More...
Parklands Chief Retires

By MEREDITH KOLODNER
In the early 1970s, when Parks Department employee Jane Cleaver was working on an open-space plan in Staten Island, a Teacher gave her piece of advice she never forgot. "She told me the way to success in city government is to keep a list of what you have to do," said Ms. Cleaver. "Just keep going ... More...

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
The president of the National Treasury Employees' Union, one of the largest labor organizations representing Federal employees, last week held up the Walter Reed Army Hospital health-care scandal as an example of the hazards of overly zealous government outsourcing. More...