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May 29, 2009  RSS feed


Past Political Rival Claims Situation Violates TWU Bylaws
Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint has testified that he has gone off its payroll and is already on the full-time staff at its International union, even while continuing to control the local's operation. More...

The neutral monitor in the Transport Workers Union Local 100 election has admonished a dissident candidate for using Web sites featuring the name of ex-union President Roger Toussaint to entice members to view material that promotes his own slate. More...

More Costly, Violates Ruling

The president of the District Council 37 local that represents clerical employees in the Police Department, nearly 400 of whom are in jeopardy of being laid off in July, said the NYPD is making misguided budget cuts and violating an arbitrator's ruling five years ago that clerical work should be done by civilian employees rather than police officers. More...

Victims Included CLC, IBEW

Brian M. McLaughlin, who once headed the city labor movement, was castigated May 20 as having undermined "the cause of unions and of working people" with his corrupt actions by a Federal judge who sentenced him to 10 years in prison for stealing close to $3 million. More...


COBA Pressured Correction

After the Correction Officers Benevolent Association threatened to sue the Department of Correction over its handling of at least 10 cases of swine flu on Rikers Island, the agency May 21 decided to screen all inmates and take other steps to safeguard officers' health. More...


Sanctions Down, Service Better

When Elliot Sander was appointed by then-Governor Spitzer to be CEO and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 2007, he was expected to use his quarter century of transportation leadership skills and private-sector experience to make over the authority's battered public image. More...


The challengers in next week's Transport Workers Union Local 100 officers election have accused the union's leadership of using spurious or false claims of dues delinquency to rule some of them ineligible. In one case, a potential candidate was deemed to be in bad standing because of a single dues payment that came in 16 days late. More...
Over a career that's included stints as a Federal prosecutor, Queens District Attorney and counsel to the Knapp Commission investigating police corruption, Michael Armstrong has seen more than his share of human cupidity that landed the culprits in the criminal dock, from white-collared fraud merchants to blue-collared cops. More...
To The Editor: Roger Toussaint is not Transport Workers Union Local 100 president any longer; his May 11, "Contract Update" letter is a fraud, and his freeloading on our dues must end. More...
Current Pension Topics
In last week's Current Pension Topics I reported that the case of Randi Weingarten, as President of the United Federation of Teachers, et. al; - against - Teachers' Retirement Board of the City of New York, et. al; has been settled. More...
Pay $25G or Higher To Start; Hundreds Of Posts Available
Must Pass Multiple-Choice And Typing Tests To Be Hired The state Department of Civil Service is accepting applications for an exam leading to hundreds of entrylevel Keyboard Specialist I jobs. The starting salary is $25,000- $26,677 as of April 1. More...

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