In its annual budget analysis released last week, the Public Employees Federation counts a net increase of 253 full-time equivalent positions in the state workforce for fiscal year 2016-17. That ...
Quick work by three corrections officers was credited with saving the life of an inmate who had a heart attack while playing basketball at the Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum security pr...
A bill that will protect state workers who blow the whistle at their workplace was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this week. The new law repeals a requirement that whistleblowers first notif...
The two works in the Empire State Plaza collection by Ellsworth Kelly, the famed artist who died Sunday at his Columbia County home, will have significance not only to lovers of the hard-edged ab...
In the legislative session set to begin in two weeks, the Organization of NYS Management/Confidential Employees will focus on speeding up the delivery of withheld 2009-2010 pay increases. “Our ...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that will allow SUNY police to participate in the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System, joining officers in 563 municipal police departme...
In a boost for the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents faculty and staff at CUNY, Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has written a letter to...
The Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, the union that represents CUNY faculty and staff, said Monday it’s starting an social media ad campaign critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s veto of the �...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday night vetoed a bill — S3010 — that would have created an optional 20-year, non-contributory pension plan for firefighters and police officers hired after Jan. 1, 2...
The United University Professions, the SUNY faculty union, was quick to praise a UAlbany report made public this week that, among other things, recommends that the university raise the minimum co...