Nassau OTB Cashier Gloria Moran did collect enough signatures to file with the Public Employees Pension Board to force the holding of an election to determine who would represent Nassau OTB employees.
The Pension Plan of Teamsters Local 707 is awaiting a PBGC takeover. Just listen to the questions asked at the Union Meetings.
Teamsters Local 707 is fighting insolvency by expanding eg Nassau OTB employees et al to collect dues.
There are some reasons why NY should be a right to work state. Local 707 may serve as but one example.
Kevin McCaffrey does not represent all union members equally
Nassau OTB employees should be free to work any day of the year that they choose.
Nassau OTB must be open 365 days of the year without religious preference before it goes bankrupt like NYC OTB or files for bankruptcy like Suffolk OTB.
When your kid defaults on their federal student loan, ask that they be given a slot machine.
Come talk to Nassau OTB employees and find out why they voted against Kevin McCaffrey.
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Editorial: Kevin McCaffrey for Suffolk legislature's 14th District
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Both are thoughtful and in touch with their constituents. Where they differ is experience and independence. McCaffrey's municipal background has prepared him to be an effective legislator. And we question the degree to which Dolan would be independent from the Democratic hierarchy with which he identifies closely. One of his ballot lines is The Schaffer Team, a reference to current Babylon Town supervisor and county party boss Richard Schaffer. Democrats have engaged in an expensive anti-McCaffrey campaign featuring several misrepresentations. They shouldn't have gone there.
Each candidate cites his background as evidence he is best equipped to address the county's shaky finances. McCaffrey has helped balance Lindenhurst's budgets for years while Dolan's experience is more limited and outside the public sector. Dolan says the treasurer and comptroller offices should be consolidated; McCaffrey wants to look at consolidating other departments, too. Both favor privatizing county health centers.
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Both extol the virtues of transit-oriented development, with Dolan pointing to the Wyandanch Rising revitalization just outside the district's borders as a great project. McCaffrey doesn't object to the project's goals, but says waiving more than $11 million in sewer hookup fees deprived the Bergen Point sewage treatment plant, located within the district, of funds for maintenance and repairs.
McCaffrey says his efforts to help residents the night superstorm Sandy hit and in the aftermath have been draining but rewarding. His passion is affecting.
In a race between competent candidates, experience tips the scale.
Newsday endorses McCaffrey.
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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.
Teamsters Local 707, the only union in Nassau County that does not provide its members with a Seniority List.
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