The budget is a month late and the governor has sent out extender bills every week to cover the government's basic financial needs. Now, for the second week in a row, Governor David Paterson is again threatening to impose a once-a-week furlough to an Read More
With the budget already more than a month late, some New York lawmakers expect Governor Paterson to include state worker furloughs in his next budget-extender at the end of the week, in order to keep the state afloat fiscally. The governor told NE Read More
Overtime for MTA employees has again come under scrutiny, as many transit workers’ total pay more than double their base salaries in 2009. The cash-strapped MTA has paid millions in overtime to employees ranging from agency presidents to train m Read More
Two lawyers retained by a public watchdog group say the state Legislature has the power to impose a temporary freeze on the collectively bargained wages and “step” increments of public employees in New York. The notion of a pay freeze has been Read More
The state Legislature would have the legal ability to institute a wage freeze for all state workers, according to a legal opinion obtained by the conservative Empire Center for New York State today, Gannett’s Jon Campbell reports. Citing similar Read More
After achieving their goal of defeating the proposed merger between Brocton Central and Fredonia Central Schools, members of a Brocton organization that called themselves Save our Schools, carried their objectives one step further. They drew up a Read More