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(See also Marc B. Kagan)
To the Editor:
“Public Pensions in Trouble” (editorial, Aug. 22) bemoans the fact that pension improvements for New York City employees were not “negotiated in collective bargaining.”
It is one of the peculiarities of the state’s labor laws that pension changes cannot be a subject of bargaining. Unions have no recourse, then, but to go to Albany to aid their members and retirees.
On the other hand, the weight that the same body of laws has given to pattern bargaining has benefited the city government enormously for many years and has resulted in the saving of billions of dollars.
Most municipal unions would be happy to get rid of both provisions and have a level bargaining field.
Marc Kagan
New York, Aug. 22, 2006
The writer is a former transit union official.
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THE TRANSIT SETTLEMENT: THE AGREEMENT - Contract Gains Won’t Finance Higher Wages
New York Times, The (NY) - Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Author: STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Abstract: Metropolitan Transportation Authority leaders who said new labor contract included productivity gains to help pay for 6 percent wage increase over next three years now say productivity measures will not cover $180 million cost of those raises; admission could undercut Mayor Michael R Bloomberg’s efforts to wrest similar productivity concesssions from city’s work force; Peter S Kalikow, MTA chairman, defends settlement, sayng savings will bear reasonable relationship to wage increases that were granted (M)
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Marc Kagan, one of the union’s top negotiators, said the savings from the bus merger might be a few million dollars a year, not tens of millions. Union officials said the merger would mean one significant cost increase for the M.T.A.: 5,500 Manhattan and Bronx bus workers would have their annual sick leave, currently 5 days, increased to 12 days, to match that of the bus workers in the other three boroughs.
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THE TRANSIT SETTLEMENT: THE DEAL - Transit Strike Averted After Tentative Deal Is Reached
New York Times, The (NY) - Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Author: STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Abstract: Transport Workers Union and Metropolitan Transportation Authority reach tentative agreement that will avert threatened strike by 34,000 New York City subway and bus workers; deal calls for pay freeze in first year and 3 percent raises in second and third years, as well as overhaul of disciplinary system despised by workers; pact gives authority one of its main objectives: wage freeze in first year; TWU had vowed not to accept pay freeze, but MTA is softening blow by giving transit workers one-time $1,000 payment in first year; that payment would not be considered part of workers’ base pay, so it will save authority tens of millions of dollars in computing future raises; agreement gives major gains to each side; union agrees to increase productivity and management promises to contribute more than $280 million to assure solvency of union’s health insurance plan; Roger Toussaint, union’s president, says he is confident members of Local 100 will accept package; city residents, who were bracing for strike, express relief; photos; chart with highlights of accord (M)
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Marc Kagan, a union official who is an expert on the disciplinary system, predicted that the new contract would reduce disciplinary citations by at least 33 percent. As for the remaining citations, he said most of them would be handled through a less formal, less onerous process.
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Year-Round Schooling: Forget About It
New York Times, The (NY) - Saturday, September 21, 1996
Abstract: Letter from Marc Kagan opposing idea of year-round schooling to ease overcrowding in New York City school system (S)
To the Editor:
The report by the Citizens Budget Commission says New York City will require fewer classrooms if it goes to a year-round system and educates children on varying schedules (news article, Sept. 17). The proposal may look good on paper, but it has no relation to reality.
The average household with children has no adult at home every day who is available at any hour and in any season to bring and pick up children from school. It is hard enough to deal with the 8:30 A.M. to 3 P.M. school day, around which parents are expected to fit eight hours of work plus commuting. It is already crisis time during the weeklong school closings in December, February and April.
Imagine being told that school will now begin (or end) at midday. Imagine arranging child care for the full months of November and May. Now imagine a second child off in January and July. Where are parents expected to find child care, after-school programs, camps and busing for all these shifts and vacations?
MARC KAGAN
New York, Sept. 17, 1996