Unions Warn of Impact On Services; Legislators Not Falling in Line
Governor Paterson Oct. 15 proposed a two-year plan to close an estimated $5-billion deficit by enacting Tier 5 pension reform and instituting a state spending cap as well as slashing spending by $1.8 billion for the second half of the year.
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10 Added to NYPD Wall
By TOMMY HALLISSEY
As the years leap forward from 9/11, the pain continues to grow for the second wave of children scarred by the terrorist attacks: those like Garrett Helmke, 7, who lost his father to an illness related to the recovery work at Ground Zero that was done before he was born. More...
[img_assist|nid=21726|title=|desc=The Chief-Leader/Pat Arnow LONGTIME CRITIC, FIRST-TIME BACKER: Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch, who until his last contract frequently clashed with Mayor Bloomberg on police compensation, endorses him Oct. 19 while praising both that deal and his tough stands on crime and illegal guns. More...
Pact Eases 1st Endorsement
By TOMMY HALLISSEY
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Oct. 19 endorsed Mayor Bloomberg for the first time in his three campaigns, citing his reduction in crime and his fight to get illegal guns off the streets. More...
By DAVID SIMS
A resolution calling on the United Federation of Teachers to support William C. Thompson Jr. for Mayor was shot down by its leadership at the Oct. 14 delegates’ assembly, making any chance of an endorsement remote by the largest and arguably most-influential municipal union.
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By DAVID SIMS
The Board of Collective Bargaining has reprimanded the Parks Department for denying an employee his rights to have a union representative present while he was questioned in a potential disciplinary situation. More...
Thompson Attacks ‘Term’ Flip
By RICHARD STEIER
Mayor Bloomberg said the city has gotten its money’s worth in raising Teacher salaries by 43 percent during his tenure and that the Police Department had “struck the right balance” between tough enforcement and sensitivity to minority community concerns during his first debate with City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. Oct. 13. More...
‘Taser’ Lieut. Widow Says NYPD Caused His Suicide