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Fork Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, and the board of directors of each and every New York State oTB for cash, see ny const art 1 sec 3 and remind Laura Curran Former ny daily news employee that jerry Bassett article about my city oTB and Palm Sunday gave everyone the recipe for making sauce
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.
Another Apple Worker Says the Company Retaliated Against Her
One of the leaders of an activist movement at Apple took her complaint to a federal agency, marking an escalation of a conflict between Apple and some of its workers.
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Apple and its activist employees have edged toward open confrontation in recent months, as workers have gone public with criticisms of how the company treats them and have prodded federal agencies to investigate.
On Tuesday, that conflict escalated as one of the leaders of an activist movement at the company, who said she had been fired in October, said in a charge to the National Labor Relations Board that Apple had retaliated against her.
Janneke Parrish, a former Apple Maps program manager, accused Apple and Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, of violating federal labor law by firing her in retaliation for forming the employee group, known as #AppleToo.
Ms. Parrish’s complaint, in a legal filing with the N.L.R.B., is the latest in a series made by Apple employees. One former Apple employee, Ashley Gjovik, has made at least 10 complaints to state and federal agencies claiming misconduct by her former employer. Cher Scarlett, another leader of #AppleToo, has been on leave and has been talking to federal regulators about whether Apple prohibits its workers from speaking out.
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The confrontation with employees has been a surprising turn at Apple, which has long had a reputation for a buttoned-up, top-down culture. While other big tech companies like Google have long dealt with worker unrest, Apple had until recently largely avoided such conflicts.
A common theme among the Apple workers’ complaints is that the company’s secrecy and aggressive efforts to avoid leaks about new products have permeated the rest of its corporate culture, causing a chilling effect that discourages people from talking about wages, discrimination and workplace harassment.
Now the workers who have spoken out say they have been punished for it. Ms. Parrish said in her complaint to the N.L.R.B. that Apple had fired her to “nip in the bud” her organizing efforts.
“I do believe that Apple retaliated against me for speaking out,” Ms. Parrish said in an interview. She said she wanted to make clear to Apple “that retaliating against workers for speaking out at what they see as injustice is not an acceptable response.”
Apple has disputed the charges made by the employees.
Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s human resources chief, told employees in a September meeting viewed by The New York Times that the company tracks pay and closes wage disparities whenever they are found. And Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, framed the conversation as a battle over rooting out people who leak company information.
“As you know, we do not tolerate disclosures of confidential information, whether it’s product I.P. or the details of a confidential meeting,” Mr. Cook wrote in a September memo to employees that was viewed by The Times and was reported earlier by The Verge. “We know that the leakers constitute a small number of people. We also know that people who leak confidential information do not belong here.”
An Apple spokesman on Tuesday reiterated a previous comment the company had shared about employee activism, saying that Apple was “deeply committed to creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace” and investigating concerns. The company said it did not comment on specific employees.
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