Shinzo Abe points out that in NY you are rewarded for not working, leaders do not fall on their sword, and ordinary people are of no value besides paying protection money AKA to a Union eg Teamsters Local 707, Suffolk County Legislator Kevin McCaffrey Presiding. In Macau the gambling handle goes down when their is a crackdown on corruption. In New York their is talk of ethics while there is no talk of seeing that the interests of ordinary gamblers is served. What bankrupt state would not see that its gambling institutions, eg OTBs, are open when tracks are running that bettors want to bet. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers to help facilitate Nassau OTB taking bets on races run in Japan. Every year bettors who patronize Nassau OTB ask if Nassau OTB is taking bets on the Japan Cup.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers to join the below in seeking an opinion from the authority that Andrew Cuomo is accountable to.
Dear H.E. Most Reverend
Dear H.E. Most Reverend Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano:
I am an employee of Nassau OTB, a New York public benefit corporation, that closes on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday in preference to the same holy days observed by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church on different Sundays. NY Const Art 1, Sec 3 precludes the State of New York from such religious preference. I am not a Christian and believe that people should be able to freely choose their days of work, prayer and/or betting on horses at Nassau OTB, a public benefit corporation. The New York State Lottery is open every day of the year and the slot machines in NY are open every day of the year. I would like to be able to work on days that others may observe as days of prayer. I acknowledge that the US is a Christian nation and the only religious holiday on the US federal calendar is Christmas.
Would the Church express its opinion on this matter to its member Governor Andrew Cuomo who is my Governor and charged with seeing that the laws of the State of NY are "faithfully" executed?
My contact information is set forth below along with a background article. More background material is available upon request.
Sincerely yours,
Nassau OTB Cashier
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
HI-
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Toyota to Raise Wages by Most in 13 Years
Move is likely to set precedent for major Japanese companies
An employee fixes a main battery of the hybrid system on an assembly line for Toyota Motor's Prius at the company's Tsutsumi plant in Aichi prefecture.
An employee fixes a main battery of the hybrid system on an assembly line for Toyota Motor's Prius at the company's Tsutsumi plant in Aichi prefecture. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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Yoko Kubota
March 16, 2015 7:59 a.m. ET
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TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp. is set to offer its biggest pay increase for its workers in 13 years, taking the lead among Japanese companies to meet an overt call by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to raise wages.
The monthly pay for a unionized Toyota worker in Japan will grow 3.2% on average starting in April, a person close to talks between the auto maker and its union said Monday.
Toyota’s management will offer a ¥4,000 ($32.94) raise in monthly base pay, in addition to a ¥7,300 rise in seniority pay, the person said.
The widely expected move will likely set a precedent for major Japanese companies set to announce the results of their annual wage negotiations on Wednesday.
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The question is whether smaller companies can follow suit. A number of small automotive-component suppliers to large manufacturers, for example, have said they have yet to fully feel the benefits of Mr. Abe’s stimulus program—known as Abenomics—because they are under pressure to reduce costs or are struggling from higher costs to import materials.
The monthly pay for a unionized Toyota worker in Japan will grow 3.2% on average starting in April, said a person close to the talks. ENLARGE
The monthly pay for a unionized Toyota worker in Japan will grow 3.2% on average starting in April, said a person close to the talks. Photo: Bloomberg News
The stakes are high for Mr. Abe this year. To achieve economic growth, he has pushed back a planned sales-tax increase to April 2017 from October 2015, sparking concerns over whether Japan can rein in its national debt, which has swelled to more than twice the size of its gross domestic product.
Since taking power in late 2012, Mr. Abe has pushed for stimulus policies that have weakened the yen, which in turn has boosted the earnings of exporters.
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The next step of this plan requires companies to increase employee pay to spur consumption, which would push up economic growth and help snap the deflationary cycle that the country has been mired in for years.
Mr. Abe has made it no secret that he wants companies to raise salaries and has made frequent reference in speeches to the importance of higher wages.
Answering this call, Toyota and other major companies last year raised monthly base wages for the first time since the global financial crisis began.
But most small companies didn’t follow suit. A poll by the industry ministry showed that only one-quarter of small and midsize companies boosted base wages last year.
Toyota has been trying to play its role to spread the wealth. The world’s best-selling auto maker, which expects to post a record ¥2.7 trillion operating profit this fiscal year, has a long-standing practice of demanding price cuts from its parts suppliers twice a year. But the company held off from the demand last autumn and will likely refrain again this spring so that suppliers can afford to raise wages.
On Wednesday, when Toyota’s management and its union are expected to complete their negotiations, the company’s management will also offer workers a one-time bonus of 6.8 months of salary, or about ¥2.46 million on average, according to the person briefed on the matter.
For its temporary workers, Toyota will offer to boost pay by ¥300 a day, the person said.
The expected monthly base-pay increase of ¥4,000 is lower than the union’s request of ¥6,000.
Toyota spokeswoman Kayo Doi didn’t confirm or deny the figures.
“The management and the union will continue discussions,” she said.
Write to Yoko Kubota at yoko.kubota@wsj.com
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