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More than 2,100 New York State employees represented by either the Public Employees Federation or the Civil Service Employees Association will receive an average of $1,375 in backpay for overtime hours worked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal labor regulators accused Starbucks on Wednesday of illegally closing 23 stores to suppress organizing activity and sought to force the company to reopen them.

Hochul announced a total of $479 million in grants for clean water projects statewide at a news conference at the Suffolk County Water Authority in Hauppauge.

In a letter to Lynne Fox, the president of the Workers United union, Starbucks Chief Partner Officer Sara Kelly said the current bargaining impasse between the two sides “should not be acceptable to either of us.” Kelly asked to restart bargaining in January.

Despite Hofstra University's recent distractive legal posture on the Las Vegas Sands lease of the Nassau Hub property, it is crucial to emphasize the astounding engagement and public outcry for progress by more than 65,000 tradeswomen and tradesmen in our communities, a sentiment that cannot and

Denmark-based Orsted and New England utility Eversource announced last month the completion of the first of 12 turbines for the South Fork project in the waters off Rhode Island and Massachusetts. That turbine and another have been sending power to the LIPA grid at East Hampton since Nov.