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TWU Local 100 Backs Yetta Kurland For Council

Manhattan City Council hopeful Yetta Kurland has picked up her first big union endorsement of the 2013 cycle with the backing of Transport Workers Local 100, which represents 38,000 bus and subway...

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CWA Local 1180 Backs Yetta Kurland For Council

The scramble for labor endorsements between City Council District 3 rivals Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson continues, and now Kurland has picked up the backing of Communications Workers of America...

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The 2013 Shadow Campaign For Mayor

The road to City Hall runs through ... Cincinnati. New York's four Democratic mayoral candidates flew to the Ohio city at the request of the teacher's union president, Michael Mulgrew. They want his...

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Bloomberg And UFT Fail To Agree On Evaluations, Blowing $250 Million In NYS Aid

Bickering union leaders and city officials have refused to reach an agreement on how to grade teachers -- costing city schoolkids hundreds of millions of dollars. Our Rachel Monahan reports: Despite...

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Democrats Corey Johnson, Rory Lancman, And Scott Stringer Build 2013 Labor...

Endorsements continue flowing in for a number of top city contests. Here are some highlights Daily Politics can bring you: * Manhattan City Council hopeful and Community Board 4 Chairman Corey Johnson...

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Teamsters Joint Council 16 Jumps Into Austin Shafran's Bid To Unseat Dan...

Newly minted Queens City Council candidate Austin Shafran will carry the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 16 into the battle to unseat Republican incumbent Dan Halloran.  “Born and raised in a...

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Despite Past Differences, RWDSU's Stu Appelbaum Is Sold On Chris Quinn For Mayor

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn took a lot of heat from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union for holding up paid sick leave legislation, but the influential labor group is handing her...

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City Corrections Officers Back Democrat Scott Stringer For NYC Comptroller

The question is quickly becoming... Who ISN'T endorsing Manhattan BP Scott Stringer for comptroller? Now on his long, long list of backers -- which makes sense since he muscled everyone else off the...

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2013 NYC Mayoral Hopefuls Put Aside Differences To Rally With Fired...

Several Democratic mayoral candidates joined forces Thursday to denounce Cablevision for firing 22 union workers for complaining about their job site. Our Jonathan Lemire reports (and photographs):...

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NYC Teachers Back Mark Levine For City Council

The United Federation of Teachers is backing one of its own in the upcoming District 7 City Council race -- Democrat Mark Levine, who got his start teaching math and science -- in two languages -- at...

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Advocates Go To Air On Teacher Evaluations

A group of education advocates has created a TV spot calling on Albany to impose teacher evaluations on the city’s public school system — just as Gov. Cuomo prepares legislation to do just that, as our...

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Document Drop: Bill de Blasio Writes The NBA

Our Erin Durkin had the scoop on Public Advocate (and 2013 mayoral hopeful) Bill de Blasio's appeal to the NBA not to hold its 2015 All-Star game at MSG because of a battle between arena owner...

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Chris Quinn's Kickoff Video, Deconstructed

City Council Chris Quinn's 2013 kickoff video seems geared at toppling the notion that her rivals have cornered the market on certain issues, distances her a bit from Mayor Bloomberg -- and while she's...

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Brooklyn Councilwoman Letitia James Scores Backing Of 32BJ/SEIU In Public...

Brooklyn City Councilwoman Letitia "Tish" James now has 32BJ/SEIU on her side in the public advocate race, marking her first labor endorsement in the competitive contest. “For years, Tish James has...

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Chris Quinn Downplays Delay On Paid Sick Leave Bill - But Will Her Campaign...

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, in announcing a sick time compromise wrought in the crucible of intense political pressure, downplayed her longstanding refusal to let the bill come to the floor....

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