Citywide
Labor Contracts Ergo Sum
Annia Ciezadlo |
Can unions incorporate ergonomics standards into contracts?
Living Wage
LIVING WAGE RESURRECTED
Annia Ciezadlo |
A coalition is quietly trying to assemble support for a new, stronger living wage bill–despite tough odds and likely opposition from city contractors.
Manhattan
MYSTERY TRAIN
Annia Ciezadlo |
Politicians and straphangers’ advocates are cheering the new subway connector that will boost E and F train service–but this big step forward means two steps back for the lowly G train, and a much longer trip for central Brooklyn residents.
Lower East Side
Power to the People
Annia Ciezadlo |
Deregulation of the electric industry has unleashed a flood of proposals for new power plants. It also makes the job of fighting them that much easier for a coalition of neighborhood groups out to stop them.
Librarians Shush Labor
Annia Ciezadlo |
Two lone renegades ask the AFL-CIO to endorse–gasp!–Senate Democrats.
NYPD
TRAINING FOR NYPD RECRUITS? IN THE TOILET!
Annia Ciezadlo |
Even as the NYPD scrambles to find new recruits, it puts last year’s class to work scrubbing the cans in order to impress new neatnik commissioner Bernard Kerik.
Manhattan
HOUSING RULE CHANGE FOR DAMP BUILDINGS ALL WET, SAY TENANTS
Annia Ciezadlo |
Alarmed tenants, housing lawyers and City Councilmembers slogged through the rain to a housing agency hearing Tuesday morning to express dismay at proposed rule changes that could allow the city to move tenants anywhere in the city while work is being done on their apartments.
Bronx
A POWER-FUL ALLIANCE
Annia Ciezadlo |
A new coalition of concerned neighborhood groups has formed to ensure that electricity deregulation doesn’t mean a power plants will be seeded all over the city.
Economy
AFL-CIO THROWS GOP LOVEFEST, LAUGHS AT LONELY LIBRARIANS
Annia Ciezadlo |
Despite a few feeble “nays,” the vote at the state’s AFL-CIO convention was a typical landslide of endorsements for a politically expedient slate of Republicans.
Child Welfare
Failure to Protect
Annia Ciezadlo |
Why do courts send kids to stay with the men who abused their mothers? Because often, that’s the only option they have.
