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Public
Employee Press Meeting
March 5 on OTB closing threat
As
PEP went to press, the union was working with state officials and lawmakers to
safeguard members jobs and solve financial problems at the Off-Track Betting
Corp.
DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts, Political Director Wanda
Williams and Local 2021 President Lenny Allen were meeting with Gov. Eliot Spitzer,
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno to
achieve a long-term fiscal solution that would protect OTB employees.
OTBs
Board of Directors voted Feb. 19 to close by June.
This is not a
done deal. Nobody has been laid off, and the union is doing everything possible
to keep things from getting to that point, said Allen.
He urged members
to attend a Local 2021 meeting at 8 p.m. on March 5 at DC 37, 125 Barclay St.
in lower Manhattan. At the meeting, members will get an update on the latest developments
and staff from all relevent union departments will be on hand to answer members
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