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It may be summer, but you can't wear THAT in the office
Sentinel ColumnistQuestion: What is it about summer that makes people lose all sense of decorum? We have a comprehensive dress code in our office, but as soon as the weather warms up, employees start taking liberties. The violations range from flip-flops, jeans and T-...Tags: Revlon Incorporated, Orlando, New York, Employees, Photography
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Northampton County deputy sheriffs ink pact
Northampton County and the union representing its deputy sheriffs have signed a five-year contract that boosts pay as well as employee contributions to health care coverage. The pact resulted from a binding arbitration award handed down about 10 days...Tags: Trials, Unions, Local Authority, Contracts, Arbitration
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State police wages rise more than 13 pct in 4-year deal
Spin CycleGov. David A. Paterson announced agreement Sunday on a new contract with the State Police union, calling for wages to increase three percent in each of the first three years and 4 percent in the final year. The new pact......Tags: Wage Contract Issues, David A. Paterson, Government, Executive Branch, Contracts
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Top of the Tuesday tales
Spin CycleDeath toll mounts as Russian invasion of Georgia rolls on. Former Suffolk lawmaker Allan Binder pleads not guilty to receiving $18,000 in bribes to steer lucrative golf course deals to operator Neal Trabich. Political strife intensifies in Kashmir....Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, John Edwards, Steve Levy, Unions, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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New York faction blasts Screen Actors Guild leaders on contract talks with studios
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York members of the Screen Actors Guild national board issued a sharp rebuke of their own leaders Sunday, demanding that they seek help from a federal mediator if contract talks don't progress by Aug. 25. The unusual criticism was the latest sign...Tags: Unions, New York, Television, Work Relations, Celebrity
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An Excerpt From 'No Child...'
The speaker in this excerpt is 80-year-old Janitor Baron, the play's narrator: "Hear that? Silence. Beautiful silence, pure silence. The kind of silence that only comes from spending years in the back woods. We ain't in the back woods (though I'm...Tags: Malcolm X, Metal and Mineral, New York, Employees, Work Rules Contract Issues
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Maurice Benewitz, local arbitrator, dies at 84
joshua.seidman@newsday.comMaurice C. Benewitz, a labor arbitrator and opera enthusiast from Levittown, died Saturday at North Shore University Hospital after a long struggle with heart and kidney problems. He was 84. "He had passions that he fulfilled," said Earl Pfeffer, a...Tags: Michigan, Minnesota, Classical Music, West Hartford, Theater
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NJ governor wants to end free E-ZPass benefits
Associated Press WriterGov. Jon S. Corzine's office on Monday repeated calls for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to discontinue giving free E-ZPass tags to employees and retirees. "The governor thinks this is an inappropriate practice, that E-ZPass should be...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Unions, Massachusetts, Employees
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Verizon, union workers make three-year contract deal
erik.german@newsday.comA deal struck Sunday between Verizon and its union workers averted a threatened strike that union officials said could have disrupted service to thousands of phone customers on Long Island. Verizon and the Communications Workers of America reached the...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Unions, Employees, Contracts, Long Island
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Binder pleads not guilty to receiving golf deal bribes
sandra.peddie@newsday.comWith his hands cuffed behind his back, former Suffolk County Legis. Allan Binder, once a prominent fixture in local politics, pleaded not guilty yesterday to receiving $18,000 in bribes to steer lucrative golf course deals to operator Neal Trabich....Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Trials, Lawyers, Justice System, Corporate Crime
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Review backs Riverhead gym teacher
mitchell.freedman@newsday.comNearly a year after he was temporarily suspended for covering a closed-circuit video camera in the Riverhead High School gym, an arbitration review has concluded that football coach Leif Shay did nothing wrong. All he did, in fact, was uphold the rules...Tags: Trials, Long Island, Arbitration, Football
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NJ guv opposes Port Authority's E-ZPass freebies
steve.ritea@newsday.comNew Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine this week said he opposes the Port Authority's practice of allowing nearly 7,600 current and retired employees unrestricted use of E-ZPasses, just two months after a debate over the perk brewed on this side of the Hudson River....Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Unions, Employees, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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