Local VP Claims President Concealed Audit; Cites Higher-Ups’ Inaction
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees President Gerald W. McEntee has accused District Council 37 Local 2054 of knowing about the financial mismanagement that went on under former president Colleen Carew-Rogers, blaming the local’s executive board for failing to remove her.
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Union, Candidate Cite ‘Deutsche’
By ARI PAUL
The Uniformed Firefighters Association endorsement Sept. 16 of William C. Thompson Jr. in the Mayor’s race may have been a show of support for the City Comptroller’s uphill campaign against incumbent Mayor Bloomberg, but the announcement the day after he won the Democratic primary turned into an indictment of one man: Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta. More...
600 School Aides Face Ax
By DAVID SIMS
District Council 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts and City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. Sept. 14 blasted the Department of Education’s continued contracting-out of services–with one firm paid $250,000 per worker—while layoffs of about 600 School Aides and other DOE employees represented by the union are imminent. More...
Called Injury Hazards
By ARI PAUL
An arbitrator has ruled that the Fire Department must rescind orders to Emergency Medical Service personnel requiring them to wear special protective boots that union officials had claimed were causing injury to responders. More...
Klein Pressures Principals Over Excessed Teachers