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Erica Rechner, director of Opportunities Long Island, a pre-apprenticeship program aimed at creating pathways for underserved communities to find work as apprentices in unionized building trades, said apprenticeships can change lives.

In this year’s election, voters given the opportunity to weigh in directly on questions of economic justice showed policy preferences far more progressive than those reflected in many national and state election outcomes.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the funding as part of the state's Local Water Infrastructure Improvements program. The initiative awards small, rural or disadvantaged communities that complete upgrades to their water infrastructure.

Given workers’ interest in forming unions and the clear advantages of unionization, why don’t these 60 million nonunion workers have a union yet? The fact remains that the primary U.S.

Under the structured increase, "Trainee 1” level workers — newer entrants into the public workforce — saw annual pay increase to $52,198 from $49,363, while "Trainee 2” title workers across the state had their wages raised to $58,247 from $52,198.

"This is great news," said Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine. "Now we will have the resources to start replacing cesspools and septic [systems] that are polluting our groundwater. It is a monumental victory for Suffolk County’s environment."