On Tuesday, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation board authorized a contract with the Gilbane Building Company to dismantle 1 Bankers Trust Plaza at 130 Liberty Street, also known as the Deutsche Bank building.
The nurses' union at University Hospital has voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiations do not progress.
Teachers in Seattle have voted to authorize a strike after contract negotiations between their union and Seattle Public Schools failed to produce a deal over pay.
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the Administrator of General Services may make or authorize a disposal or a contract for disposal of surplus property only after public advertising for bids, under regulations the Administrator prescribes.
That was not the logic a year ago, when the school board, with little discussion, authorized a $30-million 30-millionith Apple that was expecontractexpand to at least $500 million.
In this instance, it was a blockbuster revelation: Three years ago, following the second Gotti trial, an FBI cooperating witness had reported that then-Colombo family underboss Franzese had authorized a mob contract on Junior Gotti because he had quit the mob.
[C10.] 2 Verizon Unions Authorize Strike The two main labor unions of Verizon Communications said that more than 75,000 workers had voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if no contract is reached by Aug. 2. [C4.] PeopleSoft Posts $36.5 Million Net PeopleSoft reported profit of $36.5 million, or 11 cents a share, in the second quarter.
All of which makes the immediate stakes far higher for television networks than for movie studios, with the writers' unions — the Writers Guild of America, both West and East — scheduled to announce on Thursday whether their members have voted to authorize a strike when their contract expires on Oct. 31.
After winning their union election, workers at Law360 recently voted to authorize a strike amid stalled contract negotiations.
An estimated 21,000 of AT&T's wireless phone service workers nationwide voted in early February to authorize a strike as their contract expired.
Ford, which turned around financially without the benefit of federal aid, does not have such a clause, and its workers are voting this week on whether to authorize a strike if an acceptable contract cannot be reached.
