Posts

Showing posts from October, 2024

Local Nassau CSEA president and VP kicked out by state union

Image
                                                                               Nassau CSEA poster truck in Long Beach earlier this month                    Nassau CSEA Local 830 president Ron Gurrieri and vice president Bob Arciello were removed from their union positions today following an angry month-long public fight with Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman over health insurance. State CSEA president Mary Sullivan notified members in a letter today that she had removed Gurrieri and Arciello, explaining the...

Upstate judge voids new even-year elections law

Image
                                                                                        An Onondaga County judge today threw out New York's new even-year voting law enacted by the Democratic-controlled state legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in December, 2023. Supreme Court Justice Gerard J. Neri, a Republican, not only voided the new law, which was to take effect next year, but he essentially sneered at the arguments used to enact it. Neri noted that the state legislature contended it had the authority to overturn county charters and ...