NYPD brass addresses bloated overtime spending at budget hearing
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The NYPD spent $552.5 million on overtime for its officers last year, around 22 percent more than the $453 million budgeted for overtime spending.
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Uber and Lyft drivers strike outside LaGuardia for higher wages
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A large cohort of Uber and Lyft drivers held a strike outside LaGuardia Airport on Sunday where no pickups were made as the drivers protested for higher wages amid inflation.
Read More‘Queens get the De Niro’: Astoria film studio backed by famed actor nears completion
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An Astoria movie studio backed by actor Robert De Niro is almost complete. “We're going to attract all of the film industry,” the mayor said after the final beam of the studio’s structure was installed. “To hell with California.”
Read MoreQueens public defenders walk out amid contract negations with Legal Aid Society
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“It's really disgusting that we're even being put in this situation, to be always trying to survive, scraping by with a law degree and with the amount of experience that we have,” said one Legal Aid Society attorney. Contract negotiations between the attorneys’ union and the Legal Aid Society have been ongoing for seven months.
Read MoreLabor union says Parks Dept. should let them protest contract awarded to scandal-ridden company
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A local labor union protested a contract the Parks Department gave to a company that recently pleaded guilty to insurance fraud. But the Parks Department said the union had no standing and continued awarding the company with multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded contracts. Now, the union and group of lawmakers say the agency needs to change its public bidding process.
Read MoreHome care advocates let down by budget
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Despite seeing pay increases in the state budget, home care workers need a larger wage increase in order to stave off the growing labor shortage, lawmakers and advocates say.
Read MoreHochul signs labor protections into law
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"On Labor Day every year, we're reminded of the vital contributions of organized labor to building New York.”
Leaders call on Hochul to ensure HERO Act goes into effect
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“The delay in HERO Act implementation has resulted in preventable danger of coronavirus spread in workplaces.”
Read MoreGilded Age labor struggles and how Steinway & Sons moved to Astoria
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How did Steinway & Sons end up in Astoria? The answer is tied up in the greater history of the American labor struggle, particularly the emerging union and eight-hour work day workers’ movements of Gilded Age America.
Read MoreUnions stress need for change over parade pageantry
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“We had sicknesses, we had deaths and now we deserve the hazard pay.”
Read MoreBill to protect construction workers from wage theft passes Senate
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The bill takes aim at contractors and ensures they would assume liability if any of their subcontractors steal wages from their workers.
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