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  • Labor pain for Albany: A 'judges union'

    05/25/2010 5:41:54 PM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies · 261+ views
    The Post ^ | May 23, 2010 | JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
    State judges are trying to join forces with the state's largest teachers union in a campaign to get raises... Maverick Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack is leading a faction of angry jurists talking to the United Federation of Teachers about putting judges under the umbrella of the local union or its Albany County-based parent, New York State United Teachers. Such a coalition of state judges and a highly politicized labor union would be unprecedented in the country and would open a Pandora's box of ethical issues. The teachers union has had more than a dozen cases before the state...