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"This settlement is a step in the right direction. It shows the power baristas have when we stand together and demand change," said Starbucks barista Kai Fritz.

Applications for a one-time payment of $996 to cover heating costs can be made at social services offices across Long Island and the state, as well as online or through the mail, the state said in an alert Monday.

Among other restrictions, the contract requires that management provide the union 60 days to bargain over any new AI technology that “materially and substantively” impacts members’ job duties.

“The future of the labor movement belongs to the party that shows up, listens, and fights for working people,” LaLota said in a statement to POLITICO.

Union officials said negotiations have stalled on a collective bargaining agreement for the care center’s roughly 200 employees, including certified nursing assistants, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation staff and others.

Big Insurance lobbyists want you to believe the Scaffold Law makes projects more expensive. The facts say otherwise. Insurers have admitted to regulators they do not even track supposed losses.