Thousands of state workers don't have to be fired but I bet their unions will throw them under the bus to save the senior members.
Raise the
wages of state workers making federal minimum wage because they aren't included under state minimum wage law.
Raise the wages
of state workers making federal minimum wage because they aren't included under state minimum wage by law.
The state's pension fund encompasses not just the retirement funds for
thousands of state workers, but retirees in over 3,000 local governments as well.
On Sunday, a spokesman for the Civil Service Employees Association, the largest
union of state workers, said that the association was open to discussions with Mr. Cuomo, but was uncomfortable with unilateral demands.
It noted that the alleged financial crisis of Osun upon which the said rally was to be held is diminishing gradually with the payment of
salaries of the state workers and implementation of projects; like road construction, building of schools and other infrastructural projects.
According to a
number of state workers who spoke to Gotham Gazette on the condition of anonymity, regular work habits have been disrupted by the policy that sees emails purged after three months.
The number
of state workers who earned a salary and a pension last year plummeted 44 percent, but there were still 48 people who raked in more than $ 200,000 from double dipping, state records show.
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, has announced his opposition to the proposed
layoffs of state workers by Governor Paterson.
A new audit by the New York State Comptroller finds that out of a sample
of state workers at state agencies and authorities, more than a fifth were double dipping, being paid for two jobs while doing only one.
The
furlough of state workers proposed by Governor Paterson was part of an emergency expenditure bill that was passed on May 10th.
A new audit by the State Comptroller finds that out of a
sample of state workers at state agencies and authorities, more than one fifth were double dipping, being paid for two jobs while doing only one.
ALBANY — Maggie Miller, the state's chief information officer, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers at a budget hearing Thursday afternoon about the Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting
emails of state workers that are more than 90 days old.
Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown office building Tuesday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.
Hundreds
of state workers continued to roast in a downtown Albany office building yesterday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.
ALBANY, NY (01/14/2010)(readMedia)-- CSEA is blowing the whistle on the Paterson administration's exploitation of temporary workers and
undermining of state workers.
Mr. Christie also told the
story of a state worker who attended a candlelight vigil last month to mark her son's 10 1/2 months of sobriety.
DiNapoli said his office also has questions about the timing of the governor's plan to raise the hourly minimum
wage of state workers $ 15 an hour in order to set an example for his push for a statewide hike to that level.
-- Executive Director for the Kentucky Association of State Employees, Proposed Pension Changes Bring
Fears Of State Worker Exodus
I really don't understand how the governor can think he can make the lower
eschalon of state workers take a reductin in pay again!
Legislative leaders have already signaled they will reluctantly brave the
wrath of the state worker unions and opt for the furloughs over a government shutdown.
Each workday, thousands
of state workers commute from their suburban neighborhoods to the many state buildings scattered throughout New York's capital city.
According to a
database of state worker salaries, he earned $ 119,067 in 2011, the last year for which figures are available.
At a 2010 forum on government Information Technology, a number
of state workers said they had to FOIL other state agencies for information they used in the course of their everyday work.
The
President of the state worker union the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's pleased that the governor seems to realize that state government can not continue in its current form, after years of budget cuts and staff attrition, and that it needs to be reorganized.
The union's rank - and - file last year initially voted down a labor agreement forged between PEF's leadership and the administration, leading Cuomo to threaten mass layoffs
of state workers unless a second, revenue - neutral contract was approved.
The plaintiff, an Illinois state worker named Mark Janus, and his supporters have argued that even issues like the
size of state workers» salaries is a political opinion that should be protected by the First Amendment.
As the tension mounts in Albany over the late budget and thousands
of state workers forced to cut their hours and pay, the AFL - CIO is targeting individual lawmakers this election year who they say aren't looking out for the interests of working men and women.
Cuomo over the past month has appointed new leaders and
members of the state Workers Compensation Board, putting in a veteran lawyer and board member as chairman and vice chair while adding six new members to fill open and expired terms.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says despite another volatile year in the markets, the pension fund for the hundreds of thousands
of state worker retirees performed at a rate of 5.96 %.
He could afford to lose a few thousands; many
of the state workers don't even earn $ 50,000 a year w / over 10 - 15 years service, depending on their positions.
It also portrayed an administration where senior officials bullied and threatened underlings into not leaving their Cuomo government posts, lobbying laws of a longtime Cuomo loyalist being all but ignored and a massive
amount of state workers — and resources — used to carry out each of Cuomo's highly choreographed public appearances.
CSEA has uncovered over $ 62 million tax dollars being used to systematically hire temporary workers through temporary personnel agencies in
place of state workers in almost every state agency.
Amid what one person described as intolerably hot conditions,
dozens of state workers at 40 North Pearl St. were sent home yesterday when the building heated up from an unseasonably warm weekend and after the Office of General Services had disabled the cooling system.
ALBANY — Thousands
of state workers arrived at their desks Monday to find a new feature: a line on every email program stating when each message «expires.»
There were some bumps in the road, though, including tense negotiations with the
representatives of the state workers» unions and the Occupy movement that camped out across from the Capitol.