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Friday, August 9, 2019
Vol. 68, No. 32
GUIDE TO SENIOR LIVING
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COUNTY NEARS BALANCED BUDGET
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Teacher deal unlikely before school starts Herricks superintendent say talks moving forward, but will take time BY TOM M CC A RT HY Herricks Superintendent Fino Celano said more progress had been made in teacher contract negotiations at a Board of Education meeting last week, but cautioned that a new contract would not be signed in time for the next school year. “The only thing we can tell you is that we had a session with our fact finder/mediator in July and we made some progress again and we have another date scheduled,” he said. Celano said the board has another meeting with the Herricks Teachers Association and state-appointed fact-finder in August. While Celano said the board was hopeful of a resolution to the ongoing contract negotiations, he also said chances of a new contract by the 2019-2020 appeared to be unlikely since an HTA vote would not take place until after the school year has begun. “As much as we’d like to have a contract in place before the new
school year, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen,” Celano said. “Even if we were to reach an agreement, the teachers still have to vote on it. The whole union has to vote on it.” Celano said the next negotiating session is in August before the school year begins. “We’ll see what happens, we did make some progress,” he said. The Board and the HTA have been engaged in negotiations for a successor labor contract since January 2018. Since last fall, a mediator from New York state has been a third party for the negotiations. The teachers’ contract expired at the end of June 2018. This is the first time in decades that the contract has not been settled by the opening of the school year. Under state law, the teachers continue to work under the provisions of the expired contract except scheduled salary increases do not take place. Continued on Page 58
PHOTO COURTESY OF NYU LANGONE HEALTH
From left, NYU Winthrop President John Collins, NYU Langone Health CEO Robert I. Grossman, and NYU Langone Health Chair Kenneth G. Langone.
NYU Langone completes merger with Winthrop BY TOM MCCARTHY NYU Langone Health announced last week the completion of a full-asset merger with NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mine-
ola.
“NYU Winthrop has proved to be an exceptional partner and shares our level of commitment to patient care,” said Robert I. Grossman, CEO of NYU Langone Health, in an Aug. 1 statement.
Grossman said since NYU Langone Health’s affiliation with NYU Winthrop Hospital started in 2017, “our institutions have enhanced the range and quality of services offered to the residents Continued on Page 58
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