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Hochul is the dumbest, most awful person
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Jan 18, 2023 22:03
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Shageletic posted:the dumbest, most awful person why not shorten it to governor of ny?
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Jan 18, 2023 22:25
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https://hellgatenyc.com/will-governor-hochul-go-to-war-with-her-own-party-to-save-her-judicial-nominee This has a few really good specific moments of times Lasalle overexaggerated or underplayed things to make himself look better during the hearing.
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Jan 19, 2023 02:43
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In Training posted:He's going to get binned by the committee right? The question is just how far hochul is willing to fight the statehouse next. State Senate has been adamant that a vote of the full chamber would be totally out of line and she wants to sue them over it, which would what, go to state court? Who would ever preside over that kind of question, considering it would be sent to the very same chair that is causing the split. The Dems are a mess they're not a mess; some of them are finally realizing they're supposed to vote in line with what their constituents actually want and need
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Jan 19, 2023 04:15
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Why is Hochul so invested in this one unpopular guy? Is just that real estate money wants him and she's beholden to them?
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Jan 19, 2023 04:30
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Why is Hochul so invested in this one unpopular guy? Is just that real estate money wants him and she's beholden to them? i think it's just pride. she doesn't want to lose a fight to the dreaded Left (even though a lot of the anti-lasalle forces are libs). she's kinda dumb and has bad instincts, probably why Cuomo chose her in the first place.
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Jan 19, 2023 04:35
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Yeah she kind of reminds me of a beaver stuck on dry land and building a dam anyway, because that's all she wants or knows how to do. Hopefully she bows out or gets primaried in 2026, Cuomo scorched the political earth here but some green shoots are starting to show up.
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Jan 19, 2023 17:44
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do we have governor term limits yet?
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Jan 19, 2023 17:46
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Real hurthling! posted:do we have governor term limits yet? lol
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Jan 19, 2023 17:53
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hochul wants to raise payroll taxes to patch the mta budget.
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Feb 2, 2023 21:13
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"The new funding also would help foot the bill for additional police patrols on the subway system that started in October amid concerns about crime." ... "The state projected it would end the current budget year with an $8.7 billion surplus, half of which Ms. Hochul plans to put in reserve." ... "MTA Chairman and Chief Executive Janno Lieber, who has been lobbying lawmakers for additional funding, said in an interview that the governor’s proposal would allow the authority to avoid service cuts but not a 5.5% fare hike" Hmmmm
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Feb 2, 2023 21:27
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Functional transit! No more real estate developers aww they got this all screwed up
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Feb 2, 2023 21:37
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I guess the governor decided that suing her own conference would look bad, so she got a Republican to do it for her: https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1623730370024812547  (full suit)
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Feb 10, 2023 02:59
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lmao owned https://twitter.com/zackfinknews/status/1625952412442759170
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Feb 15, 2023 21:39
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 Still, according to Gothamist, the Republicans are going to try and continue that lawsuit: quote:Senate Republicans say the battle isn't over. LaSalle's nomination is dead, but the GOP intends to continue with its lawsuit in an effort to make clear the full Senate must vote on future nominees for chief judge. Initial court arguments are set for Friday in Suffolk County Supreme Court.
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Feb 16, 2023 05:22
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I don't really get pressing on with the lawsuit... doesn't seem like it has even a bengazi for-show appeal. Do they really give a poo poo about a mandatory floor vote after committee? I guess it keeps Hochul mad at "the left" and vice versa, maybe? Maybe they feel like they need to do/talk about SOMETHING until a better culture war vector shows up?
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Feb 16, 2023 15:22
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like could a SCOTUS ruling against the NY senate judiciary committee blow up all state legislative committee roadblocks against governors nationwide?
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Feb 16, 2023 15:31
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I'm not a lawyer at all, but the NYS constitution's language is "[t]he governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, from among those recommended by the judicial nominating commission, a person to fill the office of chief judge or associate judge, as the case may be, whenever a vacancy occurs in the court of appeals;" (Article VI Section 2 Subsection e) is very similar to the US constitution's "[t]he President... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint... Judges of the supreme Court" (Article II Section 2). Aside from "lol we can do what we want" I struggle to see how they could break down the committee system in New York without doing it to the US.
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Feb 16, 2023 21:08
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"lol we can do what we want" is the only rule in American jurisprudence
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Feb 16, 2023 22:14
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I suppose mootness only applies when its for good things happening
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Feb 16, 2023 22:16
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I think there were several reactionary rulings in the last ten years by the Supreme Court in cases where the original situation was moot. Don't remember which.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:41
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hey nyc goons idk if this is the right thread or whatever but i’m moving back to nyc for a job after a year in Berlin. I will be looking for a room to rent starting in mid March. Are streeteasy, Craigslist and Facebook still the best options for looking? shameless self plug if anyone has a open room or know someone looking for a roommate in the BK area I’m a 32 M friendly and very clean.
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Feb 17, 2023 10:52
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Anyone have any info on the dc37 contract agreement? I'm working for the parks and every thing seems cool, but 3% pay raise seems less than what most other people get?
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Feb 19, 2023 16:31
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ughhhh posted:Anyone have any info on the dc37 contract agreement? I'm working for the parks and every thing seems cool, but 3% pay raise seems less than what most other people get? This is coming from my wive, who is DC37 at the Brooklyn Museum, but offhand she remembers that it's -a 3% compounded per year raise, dating back to the contract expiration in 2021 and going up to 2025 -a $3,000 bonus when the contract is ratified -a childcare fund, something like 3 mil from the city, to help with childcare costs (this is probably a pittance, but we've got our only planned kid due in September so it's a timely pittance) -a committee to begin to think about a pilot program to consider the possibility of maybe later this year talking about, quietly, remote work I'm certain there's other stuff, but that's off the top of her head
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Feb 19, 2023 16:53
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There is also the 18$ minimum wage but I don't understand if the 3% compounded raise is to raise our salary to 18$ or it's applied to the 18$ minimum that's new.
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Feb 19, 2023 16:58
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the paper said it was a 16% raise and i was like dayum, uft get me that too! but maybe the paper hosed up the math or lied
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Feb 20, 2023 03:52
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Real hurthling! posted:the paper said it was a 16% raise and i was like dayum, uft get me that too! but maybe the paper hosed up the math or lied a very cursory google search posted:The tentative agreement is retroactive, beginning on May 26, 2021, and expiring Nov. 6, 2026. It includes wage increases of 3 percent for each of the first four years of the contract, and 3.25 percent in the final year. 3% annual raises compounded over 4 years and 3.25% in the final year work out so that in each year your total raise (as a percentage of original salary) is: 3.00% 6.09% 9.27% 12.55% 16.21% So calling it 16% is reasonable. However that 3.25% in the final year is actual over about 18 months. So it's only a 3.25% annual raise if you acknowledge that it's also taking a 0% raise for 6 months built in. This is a sneaky thing they like to do to improve chances of ratification--they get to put a bigger number on the raise while actually giving you less money. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad contract it's just worth noting. So yes it's a 16% raise, but you won't have the full 16% until the final contract year. Any hours you already worked form May 26 2021 through May 25 2022 should be eligible for retro pay at 3% of your current wage. Then any hours from May 26, 2022 through the date the raises actually go into effect in 2023 would get retro at 6.09% and that ~6% figure is what your pay will go up by immediately. With another 3% raise coming May 26 of this year (which will total 9.27% of your current rate). on May 26, 2025 you'll finally be at that full 16.21% of your current pay and you will be under contract at those rates until November of 2027. The most recent TWU contract which expires this May was raises of 2%, 2.25%, 2.5%, and 2.75% per year which was pretty underwhelming at just under 10% over 4 years. Edit: I'm working off of this https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/120-23/mayor-adams-dc-37-tentative-contract-agreement-providing-fair-wage-increases-and#/0 announcement from the Mayor's ofice. The actual CBA and all the memorandums of understanding for the individual workplaces and groups would be necessary to know exactly how all all these programs will be implemented and how they'll affect you personally. Hopefully that information is made available to you by your unions as promptly as possible. Usually they'll include wage charts as well. Other things that spring immediately to mind: I haven't seen much about how (or if) health insurance benefits will be impacted other than the quote from the executive board guy saying that you'll still have no premiums. Ideally this means no changes at all but it's possible there's some sneaky stuff in there about level of benefits, or even just some relatively mundane pricing adjustments where like copays might go up slightly, I haven't seen any details on this so who knows. $3M/ year towards a child care fund will probably be some moderately subsidized group daycares or if they really phone it in a voucher program. It will be helpful to at least some people and maybe the argument can be made in future contracts to expand the program if it appears to be working well for people. Committee on remote work will probably spend a few years drafting a report that will honestly say remote work is great and should be implemented wherever possible and then the middle managers of the city will just not do it anyway. $70M for 'hard to fill' positions will probably look like civil service waivers for specific job titles that are historically and critically understaffed (but like, more than all the other ones) and possibly small one-time title specific raises. For example in 2018 Signal Maintainers at NYCT got an extra $1.50/hour because retention was almost impossible, as they at that time made less than almost every other front line MOW title of equal level but also had the worst working conditions. Additionally they renewed the Signal Maintainer Trainee program allowing people to progress straight into that title without a full civil service test provided they were from an eligible title and completed an 18 month training course. Pandemic response committee sounds like it will also do nothing. Many city and state agencies actually already had a pandemic response plan prior to 2020 and just utterly failed to execute it. NYCT policy at least stated that we should have had a stockpile of masks and distributed them promptly to staff, immediately initiated social distancing, and begun rotating out staff to keep a healthy reserve workforce at all times. Instead in March of 2020 we were still writing people up for wearing masks and 'alarming passengers', crew rooms stayed overcrowded, the mask stockpile was never purchased, and hundreds of people died unnecessarily. Some of those policies were eventually, temporarily implemented at least. $3k ratification bonus is pretty good if it's actually something everyone is eligible for. What the eligibility criteria are I don't know, probably some minimum length of time in the job at the very least. 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Feb 20, 2023 09:54
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https://twitter.com/CityAndStateNY/status/1628120795305152514
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Feb 21, 2023 22:07
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how is this poo poo still going https://twitter.com/frankrunyeon/status/1628099808240992296
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Feb 22, 2023 00:03
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Griz posted:how is this poo poo still going they need to pack the bench in order to judicially veto incoming legislation like good cause eviction
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Feb 22, 2023 00:11
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I guess "lol we can do what we want" it is.  (full document)
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Feb 22, 2023 00:24
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Griz posted:how is this poo poo still going Man contributing directly to constitutional logjam:
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Feb 22, 2023 00:25
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…they already did a full chamber vote? Is this an order to hold it again? Do they think it will go differently this time?
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Feb 22, 2023 06:36
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haveblue posted:…they already did a full chamber vote? Is this an order to hold it again? Do they think it will go differently this time? This is an order to make sure they do a full chamber vote for the next guy
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Feb 22, 2023 06:49
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grah posted:[...] Great write up overall. Two quick comments Each agency has been told to figure out their remote/compressed/flexible work policy and have a pilot program in place within 60 days of ratification. My friend and I wrote an open letter with guidance from union leadership. The letter basically says we're watching and have high expectations based on what has been agreed to and if they really want to stop attrition, they gotta go hard on remote work. My office is probably one of the largest that was fully remote for two years, some 300+ of us. Management specifically said over and over that the Mayor was the only reason we weren't remote, so I'm putting their feet to the fire. Passing the letter around there first, then taking it to other chapters next Wednesday at the next local exec board meeting. Hope to get over 1k signers. It may or may not do anything, but this is the one window where grassroots might have the largest effect. On the ratification bonus, I heard the only requirement is active membership at the time of ratification. That's it. Here's the one pager so you don't have to type a book again: 
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Feb 22, 2023 12:51
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Great write up overall. Two quick comments It is possible I have become overly cynical over the years. Having a hard deadline for a remote work pilot is more substance than I expected but I'll still believe it when I see it. It looks like a decent contract all in all or, it would I guess if inflation wasn't insane and likely to stay that way. But that's usually the case with these things. The bonus being pensionable and more or less universal is nice.
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Feb 23, 2023 12:40
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Oh cool,.lets just get rid of it I'm sure we'll never need stuff like this again NYC reportedly sells nearly $225M worth of COVID supplies for just $500K
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Feb 23, 2023 14:58
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KomradeX posted:Oh cool,.lets just get rid of it I'm sure we'll never need stuff like this again just blatant money laundering lmao uh, also can you sell some of that to me please NYC. except the face shields those can go
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Feb 23, 2023 17:06
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Shageletic posted:Hochul is the dumbest, most awful person
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Does state law have an impeachment procedure? I have a dream.
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