The Daily News's Monday-morning MTA columnist Pete Donohue up the Jay Walder tenure: Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Cuomo and others are right to commend Walder for keeping the MTA afloat during a fiscal crisis and pushing forward on Read More
Tag: Unions
Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced two public-sector labor relations challenges when he took office. The first was to negotiate contracts with state employee unions that would produce both short-term and recurring savings to help stem the flow of red ink in h Read More
In a case with potentially far-reaching implications for local taxpayers across New York, a labor arbitrator has ruled that the city of White Plains, in Westchester County, has the right to require police retirees to begin contributing to their healt Read More
... 'cuz they're doing Mayor Bloomberg's job as well as their own (and the mayor gets paid $1 a year). Some background: Michael Mulgrew and Lillian Roberts head up New York City's United Federation of Teachers and the city's largest civilian union Read More
Saturday's New York Times that Governor Andrew Cuomo is "likely" to veto a bill allowing school districts to issue 15-year bonds to cover the same rising teacher pension costs that have been partially excluded from a newly enacted property Read More
A property tax cap hasn't even passed both houses yet (as of late Thursday), and already the state Senate has slipped through a bill that would allow school districts to circumvent it. The measure immediately was referred to the Assembly Ways & Read More
A coalition of state government employee unions in Connecticut is about to reject a proposed no-layoff contract deal hammered out last month with Governor Dannel Molloy. It's difficult to compare the Connecticut pact with the agreement reached ye Read More
After sailing unscathed (with steady pay hikes, no less) through a severe recession and fiscal crisis, members of New York's largest state government union will belatedly make some relatively small, mostly temporary financial sacrifices under the ten Read More