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Increase in Academic Fees
Students at Stony Brook and the University at Buffalo will be seeing a new academic excellence fee this semester. The fee was approved recently by the state of New York and is tied to SUNY 20/20'...
NYSUNY 2020
This year, state funding of Binghamton University hit a historic low, twenty-one percent. As recently as 1990, the state provided seventy-five percent of SUNY's budgets. The decline in state...
April 4th National Day of Action
Fight Back this Monday! April 4th National Day of Action 3:00 PM Nassau The first will be held at the Nassau County Legislative Building, 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, at 3pm to protest County...
Shand to testify to NYS Energy Committee
IBEW Local 1049 Business Manager Bob Shand has been invited to testify before the NYS Senate Committee on Energy & Telecommunications, and the testimony will be regarding several issues involving...
Marching Across the Brooklyn Bridge
We are marching across the Brooklyn Bridge! Message from President Rolando Scott on the Monday, April 4th National Day of Action Monday, April 4th is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr....
Special Election Tuesday, March 29th
Our Union is supporting Sarah Anker for Suffolk County Legislature (6th District). Polls Open 6 am to 9 pm. Check polling sites at http://suffolkvotes.com/. Thank you to all those who came out these...
Grading papers & organizing actions
Do you still think Teachers and Public employees aren't militant enough? Hundreds of Sachem Teachers from Long Island bused up to rally in Albany, Smithtown Teachers crashed their School Board...
Our Leaders in Albany Have a Choice
OUR LEADERS IN ALBANY HAVE A CHOICE... Give the wealthiest NYers a $5 billion tax cut? - or - Have working families make all the sacrifices? So why does New York State want to give a $5 billion tax...
Op-Ed; We must do more to prevent workplace deaths
As this month's tragic mine disaster in West Virginia proves, workplace fatalities are not a thing of the past. And they happen much closer to home, too.Now and then we Long Islanders learn of...