1 you should be sble to cash an otb ticket anywhere in ny
2 otb workers should not have to pay protection money to any union
3 the top should be few in number and not unduly compensated in proportion to the amount of work, if any, that the do
beneath the protective order in the below case is sufficient evidence to indict or. msny members of the tom suozzi crime family
Butler v. Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation et al. Federal Civil Lawsuit New York Eastern District Court, ...
blame for nation's anger on workers getting 'screwed'
Governor Cuomo pinned a large share of the blame for worker anger on the diminution of power for labor unions across the country.
(DAVID WEXLER/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Gov. Cuomo Monday blamed much of the anger across the nation on the fact that “the working men and women of this country have gotten screwed over the past 30 years.”
Addressing the state AFL-CIO in Manhattan, Cuomo said wages have not kept up with dramatic growths in productivity the past three decades.
At the same time, wages have not kept up even as the cost for housing, college, and consumer goods have jumped, meaning the middle class has gone backward.
“That’s why there’s anger,” Cuomo said. “They have gotten a raw deal.”
He pinned a large share of the blame on the diminution of power for labor unions across the country.
He reiterated his support for Hillary Clinton, but added that “just electing a new president is not going to make the problems disappear automatically. We’re still going to have to organize and fight to resolve those issues.”
“This is one of the fundamental problems that is driving this election on both sides,” he said, citing the “frustration, anger and anxiety among working men and women of this country.”
Cuomo has touted passage in New York this year of a law to phase in a $15-an-hour minimum wage in most parts of the state as well as the creation of a state paid family leave program.
He reiterated that any deal to revive an expired affordable housing tax credit should include provisions for union-like pay for workers.
The Cuomo administration has floated a plan in which the developers opting into the affordable housing tax credit program would receive government subsidies to cover some of the costs of the mandated higher salaries.
Cuomo over the past year has looked to mend fences with the unions and the left wing of his Democratic party. And he’s had his share of problems with the public sector unions.
He was at war with the teacher unions over his push to link teacher evaluations to the results of Common Core standardized tests.
With the state still reeling from the 2007 Great Recession, Cuomo upon taking office won contracts with the state unions that provided no raises the first few years.
The Civil Service Employees Association has also ripped Cuomo for downsizing the state workforce.
CSEA and other state unions are in the midst of a new round of contract negotiations with the Cuomo administration.
Told of Cuomo’s comments Monday, CSEA spokesman Stephen Madarasz said “you certainly want to look at them at face value and see it as a good thing that he recognizes the importance of paying people a reasonable raise.”
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