State legislators, Governor Paterson's Office and the Bloomberg administration continuing intensive discussions on possible changes in the financial formula that has placed the Off-Track Betting Corporation on the verge of insolvency and prompted Mayor Bloomberg to threaten its closing at the beginning of next week.
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By MICHELLE FRIEDMAN
Candidates for president of Local 372 of District Council 37 are intensifying their efforts with the June 11 election looming. More...
By ARI PAUL
A likely Transport Workers Union Local 100 presidential candidate formally demanded June 2 that the union disclose accounting information regarding its 2006-7 LM2 reports filed with the U.S. Labor Department after learning that the union's headquarters was resold for a 50-percent profit. More...
By ARI PAUL
After Transport Workers Union Local 100 took transit workers on an 11-day strike in 1980, it lost dues check-off rights for four months under the Taylor Law, which bars public-sector work stoppages. For its three-day strike in 2005, the union has been without dues check-off rights for more than a year as of June 1, with no resolution in sight. More...
The City Council's Civil Service and Labor Committee will be holding a hearing at 1 p.m. on June 11 to discuss the Department of Citywide Administrative Service's plan to reduce provisional employees. More...
By ARI PAUL
The Department of Buildings' Assistant Chief Inspector of Cranes and Derricks was arrested June 6 on charges of accepting bribes from operators and crane companies. Those bribes did not involve either of the two cranes whose failures caused nine fatalities over the past three months. More...
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