ny state cont art 1 sec protects our rights to work, bet snd or pray
even a uaw worker knows that andrew cuomo is not the pope and that teamsters local 707 is nothing but a clow union recycycling political money
open the holy church of nassau otb for the faithful sunday april 12, 2020 so that we may bet santa anita
Sunday, April 12, 2020
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 48 | 3:00 PM | 12:00 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 24 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | Mt. Cristo Rey H. | ||
| TAM | TAMPA BAY DOWNS | 72 | 0 | 12:35 PM | 12:35 PM | EDT |
Thousands of GM workers still facing required overtime to catch up after last year's strike
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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.
By DUSTIN DWYER • JAN 15, 2020
Months after the strike at General Motors ended, thousands of workers are being required to work long hours to catch up on a parts backlog.
At least six GM plants – including five in Michigan – are on so-called “emergency status.”
That means workers face required overtime. Some have been asked to work seven days a week, or on 12 hour shifts.
"They're very pissed," says UAW Local 167 bargaining chair Martin Wood.
Martin Wood is the bargaining chair for UAW Local 167, which represents about 800 workers at the General Motors Components Holdings facility near Grand Rapids.
“They’re very pissed,” Wood says of the required overtime. “They’re upset. I mean my phone is blowing up all the time. I can’t sleep some nights because I feel for them. They don’t want to work these 12 hour days. And it’s a tough situation that we’re in.”
Following the end of the strike in October, many UAW members were eager to get back to work and earn a paycheck. Some looked forward to the prospect of overtime as the automaker tried to catch up on the production it lost during the strike.
But Wood says he expected workers would get more of a choice whether to accept the overtime.
“I didn’t expect them to put us under emergency status for this long,” Wood says. He says he's still trying to find out from the company how long the status will last.
The Detroit Free Press first reported on the extended emergency status for GM parts processing centers in Southeast Michigan.
GM spokesman Jim Cain initially couldn’t confirm how many total plants remain on emergency status, with required overtime.
“What’s a GMCH plant?” Cain responded when asked whether all four of General Motors Components Holdings facilities were under emergency status.
Cain later provided a partial list of affected facilities, including:
- Flint Assembly
- Willow Run Redistribution Center
- Ypsilanti Processing Center
- Davison Road Processing Center (In Burton, Mich.)
- Grand Rapids Operations
Michigan Radio confirmed one more facility under emergency status: the GMCH facility in Rochester, New York.
Cain says GM customers and dealers have faced delays getting needed parts since the strike. He says the company needs to catch up as soon as possible.
“We’re really grateful for the hard work that people are putting in,” Cain says. “And, it’s important for us to remember why we’re doing it. And number one is because if we’ve got customers that need service or repair parts, we need to take care of them.”
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