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Babylon Teachers Association member Maddie Sollecito is expecting her first child this November, a baby girl.

"This isn't just about one school. It's about two communities that were ignored," said NYSUT President Melinda Person. "People in Hempstead and West Hempstead spoke out, showed up and made their concerns clear, but SUNY Charter Schools Committee pushed ahead anyway.

Local 817 is experiencing a busy time in feature film & television production in the New York Metropolitan Area. They are looking for CDL Class A and Class B drivers with no restrictions for temporary/part-time work.

He said the agreement includes "accountability for safe staffing." Union officials previously had said that the contract that expired March 31 already included staffing ratios, but that the hospital routinely violated them, so they were seeking contract language that includes financial penalties

The six-year collective bargaining agreement negotiated by Teamsters Local 802 for workers based in Bay Shore and in Maspeth, Queens, includes:

New York faces a choice: whether to opt into a new federal tax credit voucher program that would redirect public tax dollars to subsidize private school tuition.