Recent Accomplishments

New York Times-A Convention Center at Aqueduct Is Urged

One of Manhattan’s most desirable real-estate assets was at the center of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal Wednesday to build the country’s largest convention center at a racetrack-casino in Queens.

A new 3.8-million-square-foot exhibition hall and hotel at the Aqueduct racetrack in Jamaica, Queens, would free up 18 windswept acres owned by the state overlooking the Hudson River in Midtown Manhattan, a site occupied since the 1980s by the much- maligned Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.


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State to Construction Industry: Now is the time to “Play Fair” with your workers

Employers who Violate this New Law Face Stiff Penalties

Albany, NY (October 26, 2010) –
On a construction site close to the RIT campus, 12 of 21 contractors claimed that they had 211 employees who were really independent contractors. By misclassifying those workers, these employers illegally avoided paying more than $80,000 in unemployment insurance taxes. A painting contractor on the site had over 50 workers painting walls on the project side-by-side and classified each worker wrongly as an independent contractor.
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Governor Paterson Signs the Construction Industry Fair Play Act

Albany, NY (September 03, 2010) –
Governor Paterson has signed into law the Construction Industry Fair Play Act, which creates a clear litmus test to distinguish the difference between a worker and an independent contractor. It also provides a method to clearly define which business on a construction project is responsible for which workers. Finally, for the first time in State history, it imposes monetary and criminal penalties specifically for the act of employee misclassification on construction projects.
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Amid Cuomo’s Medicaid Cuts, Health Care Workers’ Union Shapes a Victory

Intertwined with the hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts proposed on Thursday by Mr. Cuomo’s Medicaid task force were an array of policies and spending decisions avidly sought by the union, 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East.
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Lutheran Medical sells health plan to Amerigroup

Amerigroup Corp. is making its third purchase of a New York Medicaid managed-care plan in less than a decade, a transaction that will make it a behemoth among the state's Medicaid plans.

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Lobby dollars and a dream

Genting, remaking Aqueduct, spends freely on lobbyists in bid to change constitution
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Aqueduct opens VLT casino

Just one day shy of the 10th anniversary on which former New York Gov. George Pataki signed a law approving racetrack casinos, Aqueduct the afternoon of Oct. 28 will seek to brush aside the political and legal delays as it activates thousands of video lottery terminals.
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