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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s minimum-wage workers had more than just the new year to celebrate Monday, with a pay bump kicking in as the clock ticked over to 2024.

Long Island's second recreational cannabis dispensary opened its doors Tuesday in East Farmingdale.

On Long Island, around 700 union building cleaners at office buildings, educational institutions and medical facilities could be out on strike as early as Jan. 1, according to union officials with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

The valets, members of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union Local 1102 of Woodbury, rallied in front of the hospital Thursday to bring attention to their Dec. 1 layoffs and call for reinstatement to their positions.

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.