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SUNY campuses to be provided directly with COVID-19 vaccines
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I-787 and the former Delaware & Hudson Building, now SUNY Plaza, is seen from above Frontage Road on Friday, April 9, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
ALBANY State University of New York college campuses will be provided directly with allocations of COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate students, faculty and staff against the virus, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday.
Cuomo made the announcement at an event at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood. Although state officials, a county executive and leadership from the college were present, members of the press were allowed to attend. Cuomo has not answered questions in-person from the media in months as he faces multiple scandals alleging personal and professional misconduct. His office said he planned to deliver a coronavirus update later in the day where he would answer questions, presumably via a Zoo
Some unions are shifting strategies, wary of the challenges of winning votes site by site.
During the pandemic, Amazon workers around the country have joined groups and staged walkouts to amplify their concerns about safety and pay.Credit.Elaine Cromie for The New York Times
April 12, 2021
Even as unionization elections, like the lopsided vote against a union at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., have often proven futile, labor has enjoyed some success over the years with an alternative model what sociologist of labor calls the “air war plus ground war.”
The idea is to combine workplace actions like walkouts (the ground war) with pressure on company executives through public relations campaigns that highlight labor conditions and enlist the support of public figures (the air war). The Service Employees International Union used the strategy to organize janitors beginning in the 1980s, and to win gains for fast-food workers in the past few years, including wage increases
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Inside Out: For her commitment to expand immigrant rights, her work during the pandemic and with the underserved, she’s a ‘CUNY Hero’
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Hina Naveed at her graduation from the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. (Courtesy/Mitchell Abramson) Staten Island Advance
While she cared for COVID-19 patients as a volunteer with the New York City Medical Reserve Corps at the height of the pandemic, Hina Naveed spent nights with her head in the books at the CUNY School of Law. A registered nurse, she earned her juris doctorate on Jan. 14, her third degree, from the City University of New York.