Claim Higher-Ups Ignored Corruption, Acted Only For Political Reasons
The executive board of scandal-embroiled District Council 37 College Assistants Local 2054 last week accused its parent union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of turning a blind eye to the local's financial mismanagement until it reached calamitous proportions, in a lawsuit that sought to halt AFSCME's administratorship of the local,
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'Huge' Raises Budget-Busters
By ARI PAUL
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has filed court papers asking a judge to dismiss an arbitration panel's contract award for Transport Workers Local 100 members granting them 11-percent raises over three years, an award the agency said went beyond the legal mandate and was financially impossible to carry out. More...
White MVO is Granted Trial
By DAVID SIMS
A Motor Vehicle Operator who alleges that he was denied a promotion at the Department of Homeless Services because he is white has won an appeal to have his case go to trial, overturning an initial dismissal by a U.S. District Court Judge in Brooklyn. More...
By DAVID SIMS
Roughly 750 school workers represented by District Council 37 Local 372 are facing layoffs by the beginning of October, the Department of Education estimates. The employees at risk include School Lunch Workers, School Aides, Health Aides, Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention Specialists, and Family Paraprofessionals. More...
But No 'Rogue Unit'
By TOMMY HALLISSEY
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that at the highest levels of the State Police "political considerations played an improper and determinative role" in actions taken at the agency dating back to the administration of Gov. George E. Pataki. More...
Name 'Homeland' Official Correction Commissioner