Unions Join the Fight to Slash Economic Development Tax Breaks
When local authorities hand out subsidies, school budgets lose revenue. The state teachers union is now pushing back.
“It’s gonna be a clash of the titans.”
“Our school district does the best job that they can with the resources that it has, but they shouldn’t have to keep scrimping and saving.”
“It’s like being in a boxing match with one arm tied behind your back. As funding is taken out of one source, you can’t replace it.”
State lawmakers are set to introduce a sweeping proposal for a public takeover of Central Hudson, the region’s scandal-plagued gas and electric utility.
New Yorkers for Local Businesses has spent half a million dollars trying to kill a bill to help workers recover stolen wages. Almost all its backers appear to own McDonald’s franchises.
In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country.
Low-wage manual laborers can sue to make their bosses pay them weekly. Hochul’s late-breaking budget addition may undermine that right.
As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.
As the state legislature considers a bill to change warranty payments, unions join their bosses to make car companies pay more.
The mayor and the police blamed “outside agitators” for campus protests. Student journalists reported what they saw.
Long-term subs stay with the same classes and can serve like full-time teachers. New York City schools misclassify them — so their pay doesn’t reflect that.
The state established Covid leave to compensate employees who fell ill during the pandemic. One group of essential workers has been unable to claim it.