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For more than two years, a group of health experts, economists and lawyers in the U.S. government has worked to address a growing public health crisis: people dying on the job from extreme heat.

MADISON, Wis. — A judge overseeing a challenge brought by unions trying to undo Wisconsin's law that bans nearly all collective bargaining for public workers appears to have signed a 2011 petition to recall then-Gov. Scott Walker from office because of anger over that law.

President of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO John R. Durso, and Ryan Stanton, Executive Director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO said, “We thank Governor Hochul for signing the Suffolk County Water Quality Restoration Act (SCWQRA).

Long Islanders' overwhelming approval of school budgets Tuesday marked one of the most unified and least controversial votes here in memory, sending a message that Islanders value their schools and are willing to support them with their wallets, said education experts and officials.

“This defendant not only failed to pay his employees their fair and rightly owed prevailing wage but further victimized and bullied workers by shaking them down for checks they received as compensation from the State and threatening their future employment if they did not hand the checks over,” N

ALBANY — the state Senate approved a bill Thursday that gives Suffolk County one more try to allow residents to vote on a referendum to expand sewer and septic treatment and protect water quality.