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A union sued National Grid Plc (NG/) in Brooklyn, New York, federal court, alleging the utility failed to pay overtime wages to workers putting in 60- to 80-hour work- weeks repairing damage from Hurricane Sandy. Transport Workers Union of America (0247990D) Local 101 alleged in a Nov. 15 complaint that the utility’s workers in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, New York, were paid nothing for work in excess of 40 hours a week for the past three weeks. A spokesw

As if the executives of National Grid did not have enough problems restoring the power in the Rockaways and on Long Island, they now face a lawsuit filed by their employees over pay. The company’s unionized workers contend that they have not been compensated properly for all the extra work they have been doing since Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29. Many of them have worked 16-hour days without a break for more than two weeks but have received just their regular weekly salar

November 16, 2012 by MARK HARRINGTON / mark.harrington@newsday.com National Grid employees, including thousands who worked hundreds of hours each restoring electric service following superstorm Sandy, have filed a class-action suit saying the company’s new payroll system has drastically shortchanged their paychecks. The suit, filed in Eastern District Court in Brooklyn, charges the company paid workers for a maximum of 40 hours, even though many worked double that amount. The

Published: November 13, 2012 Publication: The Chief By Sarah Dorsey Court of Appeals Judge Theodore Jones Jr., who imposed a $2.5-million fine on Transport Workers Union Local 100 after its 2005 strike and briefly jailed its then-president, Roger Toussaint, died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Rockland County Nov. 5. He was 68 years old. Friends described Judge Jones as a sweet, kind man who listened carefully and acted with temperance and fairness. He was a former