Thursday Links
Bloomberg Budget Would Cut Number of Teachers [NY Times] Rent Board, Booed as Usual, Recommends Increases [NY Times] Preview of a Grand Avenue Garden [NY Times] No Roller Rink for Coney This Summer [NY Post] Arty Birdhouses Spreading Across Brooklyn [NY Daily News] Report Says Domino Is Too Profitable [Brooklyn Paper] Riverside Tenants May Join…
Bloomberg Budget Would Cut Number of Teachers [NY Times]
Rent Board, Booed as Usual, Recommends Increases [NY Times]
Preview of a Grand Avenue Garden [NY Times]
No Roller Rink for Coney This Summer [NY Post]
Arty Birdhouses Spreading Across Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Report Says Domino Is Too Profitable [Brooklyn Paper]
Riverside Tenants May Join Class-Action Lawsuit [Brooklyn Eagle]
Suspicious Fire at Coney Island Arcade Building [ATZ]
Inside the New Farmacy [Cobble Hill Blog]
Photo by bitchcakesny
At least in the UFT (my former union), last hired / first fired. So your youngest and least committed members are let go in a layoff, leaving the long-standing diehards as dues-paying members.
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What is it with these unions that they allow hundreds and thousands of their workers to be fired instead of an across-the-board 2-5% wage cut
um because it’s a dog eat dog world?!
*rob*
By daveinbedstuy on May 6, 2010 8:56 AM
What is it with these unions that they allow hundreds and thousands of their workers to be fired instead of an across-the-board 2-5% wage cut. Do they ever learn??????
The fired workers will no longer be union members, so union leadership doesn’t have to worry about them. It’s more importatnt to keep your ongoing membership happy, since they’re the ones who will vote in the next union election.
“I guess he didn’t factor in RE taxes, electric, gas, and water increases.”
Like every other genius..
Europe sure looks great right now..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
“The new proposal reflects the sobering reality that the city, while in far better shape financially than most, is still reeling from the effects of the recession, as well as years of generous contracts for unions and increased spending.”
What is it with these unions that they allow hundreds and thousands of their workers to be fired instead of an across-the-board 2-5% wage cut. Do they ever learn??????
Ronald S. Languedoc, a tenant lawyer and the board member who forwarded the motion proposing a rent freeze, said the recession had been “devastating†for rent-stabilized tenants. He also noted that operation costs for landlords of rent stabilized apartments had increased 3.4 percent from May 2009 to March 2010, according to data compiled by the board. “That price increase is the lowest in my time on the board,†Mr. Languedoc said.
I guess he didn’t factor in RE taxes, electric, gas, and water increases.
Farmacy looks great. I just hope it opens and stays open this time. Vermont Pharmacy very briefly re-opened about a year ago and closed just as quickly. This place looks much different, more upscale than what had been there before, so I’m guessing there are new owners.