Wayne Spence News Today

The mother of the man accused of stabbing three staffers at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center on Wednesday says her son has suffered from mental illness for most of his life.

PEF President Wayne Spence said the two employees who were critically injured were "in good spirits" Thursday, though both of them have "got a ways to go" in their recoveries.

Calvin Haskins, 34, was taken into custody after the Wednesday morning stabbing and faces a litany of charges after the incident in a part of the psychiatric facility that has

The State Senate and Assembly released their One-House Budgets on Tuesday, providing some parallels, and some counter proposals.

Ongoing financial problems at SUNY Downstate Hospital are leading to what could be a transformation or the probable closing.

More than 2,000 state government workers will altogether receive nearly $3 million in back pay for working overtime during the height of the pandemic, the office of Governor Kathy Hochul said.  …

State officials reached an agreement Monday to award nearly $3 million in backpay to more than 2,100 New York State employees who worked overtime during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(The Center Square) — More than 2,100 New York public workers will be getting bonus checks for overtime during the COVID-19 pandemic, under a new labor agreement.

Proposed legislation that has garnered support from a public employees union would provide greater protection to state workers who file complaints of bullying, which is mostly not illegal in the state.

The Public Employees Federation, a union representing 50,000 white-collar state workers, is campaigning to pass Albany legislation defining actions constituting “bullying” and “abusive conduct” in state agencies for the first