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September 26, 2008
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$3,000-Plus Bonus For 6,000 Teachers And 262 Principals; Program Covers High-Need Schools Where Students Show Improvement
By DAVID SIMS
More than 6,000 elementary and middle school educators will receive bonuses totaling $19.7 million for improving student achievement in their schools, it was announced Sept. 18. Teachers at 89 high-need schools who met performance targets under a 2007 pilot program, as well as Principals at 262 sc... More...
Other Civilian Unions Lukewarm on Terms Of Local 237 Pact
By DAVID SIMS

The tentative contract deal with Teamsters Local 237 that Mayor Bloomberg predicted would serve as a pattern for other civilian-employee unions drew a mixed reaction from officials at those unions, some of whom had hoped the fringe-benefit gains would equal those granted to the two largest police ... More...

Pension Funds Not Shaken By Wall Street Earthquake; Thompson: Losses Not Heavy
By TOMMY HALLISSEY

City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. Sept. 17 reassured city employees that their pension funds were safe despite investments in all three companies — Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG — whose massive fiscal woes last week caused devastating losses on Wall Street. More...


New MLC Head Nespoli: Will Help Unions Bargain; Hopes to Resolve Impasses
By RICHARD STEIER

Harry Nespoli had no sooner been elevated to serve as chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee than he outlined a possible new task for the job: to assist other union leaders in moving their wage contract talks to conclusion. More...


Aspiring TWU Steward Encounters a Catch-22; Union Puts Program on Hold
By ARI PAUL

When 1-line Conductor John Ferretti found a posting at the Van Cortlandt terminal in The Bronx signed by Transport Workers Union Local 100 Conductor Division Chair William Wyatt stating that Mr. Ferretti had wrongly been telling workers he was a shop steward, he assumed it was a case of retributio... More...


First-Line Supervisors, First-Rate Heroic Acts; SBA Honors Its Own
By TOMMY HALLISSEY

Sgt. Donald Abrams was working in Manhattan in March with the NYPD's Hercules command when an almost 20-story crane fell into a 25-story building on East 51st Street, ultimately killing seven people and injuring many others. After hearing the thunderous crash, he was part of the first NYPD unit on... More...


 Editorial
•Caution Serves City Well
Given the city's dependence on the financial services industry for tax revenue, there was something remarkable about the fact that the upheaval on Wall Street during the past week or so did not have a dramatic ripple effect on city government. More...
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 Editor's "Razzle Dazzle" Column
•Pandora's In-Box: Housing Authority E-Mail War Could Cost
Mitch Feder has this annoying habit of standing up when he thinks he's right. What is particularly exasperating to those he's antagonized — his superiors at the Housing Authority and at the Civil Service Technical Guild — is that to remove him from their windshields, they've been forced to take ac... More...
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 Letters to the Editor
•Market Crashes on NYCERS
To the Editor: The New York City Employees Retirement System is in a very serious financial situation. As of June 12, NYCERS had lost $3.3 billion in 2008. As of yet, NYCERS has not publicly reported its June 30, 2008 closing balance. June was such a terrible month for stocks that final loss fo... More...
•Can't Take That Away
•Unite Against TWU Leaders
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 Professionals' Column
•Current Pension Topics: Don't Panic, And Keep Investments Diversified
Q.: I am a retired participant of the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York. I have $650,000 in the TRS 403(b) Plan. For the past 10 years my entire 403(b) account has been earning 8. More...
•YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
•Know Your Rights: Annual Round-Up of The Year's Topics
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 Civil Service Exam Stories
•THOUSANDS OF POLICE OFFICER JOBS OFFERED
Starting Pay Expected To Rise to $40,360, Top Pay to $73,546; Ongoing Exams Given; Need 60 College Credits Or Military Service
The NYPD is looking to hire thousands of Police Officers at a starting salary that would become $40,360 later this week if a tentative Patrolmen's Benevolent Association contract is ratified. If that deal is approved, maximum pay would become $73,546 after 5-1/2 years. Applications are accepted co... More...
•CITY CERTIFICATIONS
•ROUNDUP OF EXAMS LEADING TO JOBS
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