• Budget crisis looms: We need a friend in Albany

• All the way with Carl McCall
• Get out the vote

• Roberts: Getting ready for tough talks
• Economic Climate: Cloudy, but no silver lining
• DEP agrees to end grievance backlog
• HHC, UNY and NYCHA set early out dates
• Lillian Roberts is elected to city and state labor posts
• Civilianization victory: Local 1549 wins 800 jobs for clerical workers
• Board backs union on merit pay
• Delegates vote to expand DC 37 Executive Board
• Union fights on-the-job hazards:
  • Queens court: conditions are unjust
  • DOT trucks endanger lives and licenses
  • Local 372 traps school rats
    
• Accounting, EDP titles: Higher longevity pay for 4,500
• Annuity fund losses spark concern, anger
• What your union dues do for you

Health care open enrollment period:

• City puts GHI-Blue Cross plan out for bids
• Greater savings opportunities with 401(k), 457 plans
• Roberts names new Health and Security trustees
• Basic plan and optional rider costs

• Committees schedule events
  
• Fight Breast Cancer: Join union walkers Oct. 20
• Housing Forum: Tenants' Rights, Oct. 28
• Immigration Diversity Visa 2004 Lottery
• Postponed: Legislative Conference
• Labor Day rally

• Unionists of tomrrow back labor today