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NYPD can't side with Amazon

The Police Department, perhaps unwittingly, got involved in a labor dispute Feb. 23 when officers were summoned to Amazon's Staten Island facility after the Assistant General Manager there called to …

Not-So-Marvelous Mr. Mullins Scrapes Bottom

Even the most-resourceful police officers sometimes benefit, in solving crimes, from the reality that many criminals are morons. A reasonably smart bank-robber understands that if he's just made …

School agents still essential

It's a positive sign that Mayor Adams is reconsidering his preliminary budget plan to cut 560 School Safety Agent positions in the wake of weapons seizures having risen 80 percent in the first eight …

Amazon Delivers Contempt

Amazon, in its perverse way, seems determined to make the case for passage of organized labor's top legislative priority, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. The Retail, Wholesale and …

RIP Eddie Kay: Farewell To a Great Organizer

Late last year, Eddie Kay called me to ask how I was doing, inform me he had been dealing with some health issues, and mention that he was supporting Jumaane Williams for Governor, just as he had for …

CUNY Plays Adjuncts Cheap

The City University of New York played its own version of wait-'em-out when a technical problem prevented 317 adjuncts at its member schools from getting their first paychecks of the spring semester …

'A Kick in the Stomach': Cop Reflects on Deaths

"It's hard to say exactly," Mike the Cop replied when asked Feb. 10 about the mood on the street among officers, not quite three weeks after Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were fatally shot by a …

Denying Reality

After getting a reception that was alternately cool and hostile when he made his case for amending the 2020 bail-reform law remotely to state legislators Feb. 9, Mayor Adams traveled to Albany to try …

False Sense of Outrage

The roughly 400 city workers who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and over to City Hall Feb. 7 protesting plans to fire up to 4,000 employees four days later for refusing to be vaccinated used …

Library Local's Book Mystery

John Fahs, who recently became a vice president of New York Public Library Local 1930 of District Council 37, said that for years when he asked questions about the local's spending, he'd "get …

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