More Details On TWU 100 Contract
More from Dana Rubenstein at Capital NY on the TWU 100 contract:After two long years of stop-and-go negotiations, Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transport Workers Union had struck a tentative labor contract deal.The announcement, which was light on details, includes five years of annual wage increases, including 1 percent in the first t
Cuomo Announces Contract Deal Between MTA And TWU 100 - Raises In Each Year + Full Retro
Here's TWU 100 update:President Samuelsen, Gov. Cuomo announce tentative contract agreement giving raises in each year and fully retro. pic.twitter.com/zTC6OYDrmq— TWU Local 100 (@TWULocal100) April 17, 2014 Cuomo was asked at the press conference if this new TWU 100 contract sets the pattern for city contracts.Remember that he said a few months ago that the state pattern set the pattern for the c
Cuomo Appoints Geoffrey Canada To Smart School Initiative Commission That Looks To Upgrade Classrooms For Online Testing
Another day, another Cuomo commission - this one a commission to make recommendations for what to do with $2 billion in "Smart School Initiative" bond money Cuomo hopes to get the public to pass in order to provide "smart classrooms" (i.e., classrooms wired for online testing) in schools:Though voters are yet to consider a $2 billion bond act for education infrastructure and te
Daily News: Cuomo Stepping In To Broker MTA/TWU 100 Deal
As surmised in this morning's NY Times piece, Governor Cuomo is indeed stepping in to broker a deal between the MTA and TWU 100 over deadlocked contract negotiations that has brought about the possibility of a summer transit strike hitting just months before Cuomo hopes to get re-elected:Gov. Cuomo is stepping into the heated contract talks between the MTA and the union representing 34,000 transit
MTA Pulls What Amounted To Taxpayer-Funded Cuomo Campaign Ad
Colby Hamilton at DNAinfo:CIVIC CENTER — The MTA will pull a subway advertisement that thanked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for helping to secure $4 billion in federal funding for Hurricane Sandy-related transit repairs, an MTA spokesman said on Wednesday, after DNAinfo New York contacted the agency earlier in the week....The ad, which began appearing inside subway cars last month, begin with the line, &quo
Cuomo May Break CSEA Contract Pattern For MTA, Has Implications For City Contract Negotiations
James Eterno at ICEUFT posted this morning that in its municipal contract negotiations the city is offering the pattern first set by Governor Cuomo and CSEA back in 2010 - a five year contract with 0% for the first three years, 2% in the fourth year and 2% in the fifth year.Cuomo said publicly that the CSEA pattern set the pattern for municipal contracts as well as state contracts, although in the
4-16-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Wall Street Journal Covers ATR'sThe Wall Street Journal reports that the ATR issue is a major part of the contract discussion:As negotiations drag on over a new contract for the city's teachers, one sticky issue involves how to handle teachers who lost permanent jobs during cutbacks but keep getting full paychecks as they bounce around schools for brief stints, filling in fo