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Daily News Slams Abbate, Colton For Proposing Benefit Boost To Public Employees Amid Financial Crisis

Peter Abbate Source: assembly.state.ny.usAssemblymen Peter Abbate and William Colton introduced eight new bills that would increase pensions and retirement benefits for government workers, according to a report by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/albany-introduced-bills-boost-retirement-fund-gov-workers-article-1.1269525] – and that’s got the paper’

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In Fiery Speech, Senator Diane Savino Defends Pensions, Unions

In the above video, posted on website Politics On The Hudson [http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2012/03/13/video-in-fiery-speech-senator-defends-public-pensions/] , State Senator Diane Savino speaks at a rally for the New York State Professional Firefighters Association outside the State Capitol in Albany. Savino, a former labor leader [http://www.nysenate.gov/

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Feds Seek To Make It Easier For Unions To Organize

As employees at a Long Island Target store try to organize [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/17/long-island-target-store-may-be-the-first-to-unionize/] and the likelihood that anti-labor union behemoth Walmart will soon try to bribe donate its way into NYC increases [http://gothamist.com/2011/07/07/walmart_is_funding_citys_free_summe.