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Garbage workers on strike BY ST E P H E N ROMANO More than 65 workers from Meadow Carting Corp., a Westbury-based garbage company serving many North Shore municipalities, including the Town of North Hempstead, went on strike on Monday, seeking higher wages and better beneďŹ ts. Town and village oďŹƒcials said the strike disrupted or delayed trash collection in municipalities across the North Shore. The workers, who are represented by the National Organization of Industrial Trade Unions, have been picketing Meadow’s main building at 581 Dickens St. in Westbury since Monday, when they rejected the company’s proposed contract. The last contract expired on Friday. “We’re out here to try and get better beneďŹ ts and better pay,â€? said Marco Garcia, a Meadow employee for 11 years. “We haven’t gotten a raise in nine years.â€? Garcia said the Meadow management tells its workers, “If you don’t like it, here’s the door.â€? Anthony E. Core, a lawyer Continued on Page 70
PHOTO BY KAREN RUBIN
Nassau County Presiding Officer Norma L. Gonsalves speaks at a press conference calling for County Executive Edward Mangano’s resignation.
Applause and then resignation call GOP legislators press Mangano to step down as county exec BY N O A H M A N S K A R Norma Gonsalves, the Nassau County Legislature’s Republican majority leader, introduced County Executive Edward Mangano’s annual State of the County address shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday in the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coli-
seum, a major achievement of after his indictment on federal corruption charges. Mangano’s administration. “We need to lift the cloud that Gonsalves and other Nassau legislators applauded Mangano, is above our county government,â€? also a Republican, as he touted said Legislator Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde the county’s ecoPark), the Legislanomic growth and Hempstead Councilman ture’s deputy preďŹ nancial progress in the eight years Ambrosino arrested, fired siding oďŹƒcer. “We need to restore the since he was electPAGE 22 public’s faith in its ed. elected oďŹƒcials. But three hours later, Gonsalves and ‌ We believe that for the good eight other GOP legislators of the county, of Nassau County, called for Mangano’s resigna- and the residents that we serve, tion outside his Mineola of- that our county executive should ďŹ ce — more than ďŹ ve months step down.â€?
Gonsalves, Nicolello and Legislator Howard Kopel (R-Valley Stream) — the Legislature’s top three Republicans — sent Mangano a letter Monday afternoon asking for his resignation “with great sorrow.â€? Six other Republican legislators joined their call, but three did not: Rose Marie Walker of Hicksville, the mother of Rob Walker, Mangano’s chief deputy; Vincent Muscarella of West Hempstead; and Laura Schaefer of Westbury. The nine Republicans said they gave Mangano the beneďŹ t of Continued on Page 70
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