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Six hundred unionized delivery workers for Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors had been on strike for two days in an ongoing dispute over pensions and other labor practices.

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The proposed new union contract reportedly protects workers' pensions and retirement security.

Long Island-based Northwell, New York's largest health care provider, which operates 21 hospitals and employs more than 85,000 people, according to its website, first filed a Certificate of Need with Nuvance in May, which is required for a health care system to merge with another group or expand.

A shipment of just over 250,000 pounds of food that Long Island Cares — The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank was expecting this week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture was canceled "with no explanation," the food bank's president says.

Many Stony Brook University Hospital employees say they shouldn't have to pay to park at work and rallied Wednesday against Stony Brook’s plans to increase parking fees for them.

41% of employers plan to cut jobs as AI automates job functions by 2030, according to a World Economic Forum survey released in January. According to the survey, 77% of employers are looking at training their workers to work with AI.

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