add a cause of action against andrew cuomo for violating rights of nt bettors secured by ny const art 1 sec 3. send ny pml sec 109to hell. consider also teamsters local 707as example of union worse than yours?
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.
Teachers file suit over forced union dues
Teachers across New York state are being illegally forced to cough up union dues — even if they’re not members, according to a new class-action federal lawsuit.
Gov. Cuomo signed a new state law in April mandating that all teachers pay a New York State United Teachers “agency fee” regardless of their membership status. Supporters say all teachers benefit from pay hikes and perks secured by the union and should subsidize those efforts.
But in a suit filed Thursday, Northport, LI teacher Scott Pellegrino, says he and co-plaintiff Christine VanOstrand, oppose “NYSUT’s political advocacy and collective bargaining activities” so they shouldn’t have to fund them.
Also sued are Cuomo and state AG Barbara Underwood.
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