Rescue Package Removes Need for Service Cuts, Reduces Fare Hike
The State Legislature's approval May 6 of a financial rescue package for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to avert major service cuts and more than 1,000 threatened layoffs at New York City Transit, and improves the chances of the transit unions getting raises consistent with those granted to municipal workers over the same basic period.
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Freezes Outside Hiring
By DAVID SIMS
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein ordered a hiring freeze in all city schools May 6, telling Principals in a letter that all new hires had to be made from the Absent Teacher Reserve in order to save money. "We cannot afford to support a growing excess pool, which currently includes 1,400 staff in all titles," Mr. Klein said. More...
Wages, Benefits Key Issues
By ARI PAUL
With their contract negotiations stalled, the 1,100 AlliedBarton security guards who work at city-owned buildings authorized a strike that could begin as early as May 16, their union announced May 7 during a rally in lower Manhattan. More...
By DAVID SIMS
Managers at the Administration for Children's Services are being laid off and demoted, with other agencies compiling at-risk lists, as city agencies deal with cuts for the coming fiscal year's budget. More...
3 Guilty of Other Violations
By TOMMY HALLISSEY
The Correction Department failed to prove that three Captains and four Correction Officers used excessive force or witnessed it being used against an inmate who was being strip-searched, according to an Administrative Law Judge, but three of them face suspensions More...
Police Memorial Wall Adds 11 Honored For Giving Their Lives