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by Adam Lisberg, Daily News (February 1, 2009)
City employees run almost every part of New York's sprawling water and sewer system - but officials want to hire private workers to operate a new filtering plant in the Bronx.
"Outsourcing is an attractive option here because filtration has never been done in this city and it's very specialized," said Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Commissioner Anne Canty.
The Croton Water Treatment plant, being built under Van Cortlandt Park, will for the first time ...full story
by By David Sims, the Chief-Leader (August 8, 2008)
Despite Metropolitan Transportation Authority budget woes and a possible recession, Mayor Bloomberg said MTA engineers should be paid more in his weekly radio show on July 25, a proposal praised by the Civil Service Technical Guild. The union also, however, suggested municipal engineers were in the same boat
“We don’t pay them enough,” the Mayor stated on WOR-AM. “We work as hard as we can to make those jobs appealing, but obviously we are limited by being in the public se...full story
by Kathleen Lucadamo, Daily News (July 25, 2008)
Mayor Bloomberg favors trimming MTA spending, but Friday he called for the cash-starved agency to give workers a raise.
"The people who work for the MTA, we don't pay them enough," Bloomberg declared on WOR radio.
The mayor blamed construction cost overruns, in part, on underpaid engineers who have to haggle with their higher paid, and presumably, more experienced counterparts.
"If you want to have the best engineers to negotiate with the best enginee...full story
by Kirsten Danis, the Daily News (April 13, 2008)
The cost of a controversial tracking system for city employees has quietly ballooned to $410 million - and is still climbing.
"It's insanely expensive," said labor lawyer Rachel Minter, who is heading up one union's fight against the most sci-fi aspect of the system: hand scanners that can identify employees by the shape of their palms.
The scanners are one part of CityTime, a tracking and payroll system that after 10 years and more than $400 million now covers just...full story
by David Seifman (August 9, 2006)
The city has begun installing high-tech "hand scanners" in government offices to track the comings and goings of workers - touching off outrage in one major agency.
The futuristic devices - replacing old-fashioned employee timesheets - were set up a couple of weeks ago in the Department of Design and Construction.
The city's Office of Payroll Administration is in the process of installing the readers at numerous agencies as part of a multimillion-dollar automated ti...full story
by Alan Saly (August 7, 2006)
The Civil Service Technical Guild
LOCAL 375, DC 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
125 Barclay Street, 6th Fl., New York, NY 10007-2179
City Architects, Engineers, Construction Managers Protest Biometric Readers at the Department of Design and Construction; Union to File Labor Charge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LONG ISLAND CITY, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2006 Architects, Engineers, and Construction Project Managers employed by the New York City D...full story
by Brendan Pierson (June 21, 2006)
Lab advocates question whether other testers can deliver same service.
About twenty health workers rallied outside the city's Public Health Laboratory on First Avenue on Tuesday to protest the decision by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to close a lab devoted to testing blood for lead poisoning. But they weren't looking out for their jobs. They all will remain employed at the Health Department in other positions. They're worried about who will do ...full story
by HOWARD MEGDAL, the Chief-Leader (June 6, 2006)
David Weprin, the Chair of the Council's Finance Committee, calls the Department of Health's plan to save $300,000 by closing the lead testing lab at 455 First Avenue "absurd."
The union representing workers in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Manhattan blood-testing lab joined with a number of local political leaders in front of City Hall June 1 to ask that agency Co...
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by Claude Fort (May 6, 2006)
Recently, I spoke with Commissioner Burney at DDC, and he assured me that after Memorial Day, the use of palm scanners at DDC will be made optional.
Local 375 is prepared to fight any new system management may implement if it is detrimental to our members.
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by Local 375 Staff (March 2, 2006)
On February 28, Local 375 Treasurer Ron Vega, who worked at the Ground Zero for ten months as a volunteer, testified before a Congressional Committee Chaired by Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT). He spoke in support of WTC rescuers and volunteers who were exposed to toxic substances at the site and face continuing health problems. Click here to see a video of the testimony....full story |
