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Port Authority Chief Fires Back at Mayor; For First Time, Names the Names of Projects Sacrificed to WTC FinancingJune 18th, 2009  By Eliot Brown The Port Authority’s executive director swung back Thursday morning against attacks from Mayor Bloomberg, painting a picture of his agency as a cash-poor entity that already must scale back and scrap major projects including a major renovation at LaGuardia airport and a new midtown bus garage. A MESSAGE FROM NYSUT TO THE NYS LEGISLATUREJune 18th, 2009  From Alan B. Lubin, Executive Vice President This correspondence is to reiterate and clarify NYSUT’s position regarding the agreement between the Governor and various other statewide unions, as well as the potential impact of this agreement as it may apply to the public pension benefits available to all future public employees. Roads, Bridges, Tunnels, and Fiber: BALCONY Hosts June 18th Forum Featuring Port Authority Executive Director Chris WardJune 11th, 2009  BALCONY will host a June 18th Breakfast Forum featuring a keynote speech by Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward. Ward will describe and discuss the capital plan that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is currently implementing. This will be followed by a panel discussion on the Port Authority plan and other infrastructure initiatives, including a report from the New York State Commission on State Asset Maximization, the impact of the federal stimulus on New York and a status update on other state-of-the-art technological infrastructure initiatives previously championed by BALCONY. BALCONY & American Cancer Society Urge Albany: Back Health Insurance for Thousands of Young Adults Community Rating should be preserved! Extend COBRA to 36 Months.June 8th, 2009 Now is the time for Albany to step up on Health Reform.
Help young people get access to health insurance. Assembly A 8401 Senate 5469: Summary and Information On October 27, 2008, BALCONY, AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, DEMOS, FREELANCERS UNION and NYU WAGNER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION held a special forum on the plight of uninsured New Yorkers in their 20's -- a group that includes more than 800,000 people, many of them working and/or living in New York without health insurance. Read the bulletin: Health Care BALCONY-Rochester invites you to attend a meeting with NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoliMay 30th, 2009  Tuesday, June 2, 2009 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and a panel of private equity professionals will discuss the Common Retirement Fund's In-State Investment Program that is looking to invest $528 million in New York-based companies, including early stage and growth capital for Upstate New York businesses. BALCONY-Rochester Health Care Forum ReportMay 21st, 2009 Thank you to those who attended the Business and Labor Coalition of New York's BALCONY - Rochester, Health Care Forum on May 1st and to those who showed their support in seeking to reform New York's health care system. BALCONY, in cooperation with the American Cancer Society, National Federation of Independent Businesses, New York State United Teachers, Rochester and Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO, Monroe Plan for Medical Care, Downtown Community Forum, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, IBEW Local 86, and Rochester University Medical Center, was pleased to bring together business and labor to engage in conversation and share information.GOVERNOR PATERSON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO MAKE HEALTH INSURANCE MORE AFFORDABLE AND IMPROVE ACCESS TO HEALTH CAREMay 18th, 2009 Package Includes Proposals to Extend the Availability of COBRA Coverage for New Yorkers Who Lose Their Jobs and to Insure Dependents Up to Age 29
Other Proposals Will Make Insurance and Needed Health Services More Accessible BALCONY-Rochester Hosts May 1st Health Care ForumMay 10th, 2009  BALCONY Director Lou Gordon discusses Health Care Reform in New York Seeks to Find Common Ground in Reforming New York’s Health Care System The Business and Labor Coalition of New York, BALCONY, hosted a Rochester Area Health Care Forum on Friday, May 1st at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and was attended by more than 80 persons from labor unions, small businesses, health care providers, community advocacy groups and legislators. The event focused on updates on health care reform efforts at the local, state and national levels and on finding common ground between business and labor on practical solutions for improving New York's health care system. News from BALCONY Archives Unemployed Swamp FundJune 29th, 2009  New York spends $100M a week as Uncle Sam shores up plan; top benefit is one of nation's stingiest. By James M. Odato Nancy Golin, unemployed the past two years, lives in modest quarters in Albany on an unemployment insurance check of $128 a week. That includes a temporary $25 stipend from federal stimulus money. It doesn't pay the bills and she hopes a Legal Project lawyer can help her hold off creditors. Ignoring the UnemployedJune 29th, 2009  Editorial New York State has not increased its maximum unemployment benefit — a meager $405 a week — in a decade, and a drive to raise payment levels has been derailed by the legislative chaos in Albany. While the politicians squabble, victims of the economic downturn are struggling to make ends meet. The governor and legislative leaders should increase unemployment benefits without further delay. Amid Senate Chaos, Hope Fades for a Bill to Raise Jobless BenefitsJune 29th, 2009 By Patrick McGeehan A campaign to increase New York’s unemployment benefits for the first time in a decade has been sidetracked by the political stalemate in Albany — possibly for the rest of the recession. Achievement through community schools at the heart of 'Say Yes to Education'June 19th, 2009 by Sylvia Saunders - New York Teacher It's 4:20 p.m. on a Thursday at Dr. Martin Luther King Elementary School in Syracuse and the place is still bustling. Every seat in an after-school computer lab is filled as a teacher and teaching assistant help eager youngsters. Down the hall, students in various classrooms, working with a college-age tutor, practice math flashcards and count in Spanish. A chorus is singing an uplifting spiritual in the music room. Students here, for the first time, are being exposed to new enrichment offerings: leadership classes, kung fu, yoga, step dance, African art and drumming. NYS AFL-CIO President Hughes On State Unemployment Insurance Legislation: NY's Inaction Means Benefit Level Remains Lowest In NationJune 1st, 2009 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 20 May 2009 New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes today issued this statement following the state’s passage of Extended Unemployment Benefits (A8273/S4110): Thanks to leadership from the Obama Administration, New York State has now added an additional 13 weeks of extended unemployment insurance benefits. This means thousands of individuals who have been victimized by the current recession and were on the verge of exhausting their unemployment benefits will continue to be eligible for unemployment in the near term. Congress and the Obama Administration’s swift and decisive action with regard to economic stimulus and unemployment benefits were intended to jump-start the economy and spur the states into action of their own. News from our Members Archives New York City mayor: Don't cap state property taxJune 8th, 2009  by Joan Gralla New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday said he opposed the governor's plan to cap property taxes because it was "undemocratic" and could require the city to pay for the extra costs that result. June 4th, 2009 by James M. Odato and Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau ALBANY -- Gov. David Paterson and public employee unions are closing in on a deal to avoid the governor's proposed 8,700 layoffs. Under the preliminary plan, the state would provide $20,000 "buyouts" to workers who voluntarily leave the payroll, people briefed on details said Wednesday. Sparring in Albany Over Raising Wages to Build Lower-Cost HousingJune 2nd, 2009 by Manny Fernandez Two seemingly like-minded political allies — labor unions and nonprofit developers of lower-cost housing — have taken opposing sides in Albany over a bill that would require the developers to pay construction workers the prevailing wage, essentially a union-level wage far higher than nonunion pay. NEW YORK STATE COMMISSION ON ASSET MAXIMIZATION DELIVERS FINAL REPORT TO GOVERNOR PATERSONJune 1st, 2009 Report Contains 27 Major Recommendations to Help Create Jobs, Generate Economic Activity, Benefit Colleges and Universities across New York State Governor Calls for Creation of State Asset Maximization Board to Provide Oversight Process for Potential Public-Private Partnerships Retirement Income Security: The OxymoronMay 28th, 2009 by Thomas J. Mackell, Jr., Ed.D.
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