NYC NOW - April 12, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: April 12, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day.

Welcome to NYC Now, your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Wednesday, April 12th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. 64, mostly cloudy, still dry and warming to the low 80s today. Rutgers University faculty have canceled classes for a third straight day. WNYC's Karen Yee reports school administrators and the union still have not reached a deal. Governor Phil Murphy says he intends to play a role in the ongoing contract talks that have been taking place in the State House since the strike started this week. He told WNYC last night he was frustrated months of negotiations still resulted in the first teaching strike in Rutgers history. But he says progress is being made.

We're the quintessential American organized labor state. So I want to get a solution that exudes that wreaks fairness. Professors, graduate workers, and students filled picket lines in New Bruns, Newark and Camden, Monday, and yesterday, and are expected to return today. Unions want higher wages for graduate workers and to fix wage disparities among adjuncts who are paid per class at much lower rates than full-time professors. Patrick Lynch, the head of the NYPD's largest police union is not running for re-election. WNYC's Matt Katz reports. Lynch was first elected in 1999, making him the longest-serving PBA president in city history. His announcement that he won't run in

this spring's union election comes just after he inked a new contract for his 23,000 members that provides retroactive raises of more than 28% for the period from 2017 to 2025. Lynch is known for vociferously defending officers accused of wrongdoing and blaming politicians, particularly former Mayor Bill de Blasio for the deaths of officers in the line of duty. Lynch and the PBA controversially endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. The lawsuit is in a response to the subpoena of a former prosecutor from Bragg's office from the House Judiciary Committee, which Jordan leads.

In court records, Bragg accused Jordan of overstepping his authority by interfering in a local criminal prosecution. Bragg's office is overseeing the investigation into former President Trump's payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, disguised as business expenses, which led to an indictment last month. News of the suit comes one day after Jordan's Judiciary Committee said it would hold a hearing next week in the city about brag and crime in Manhattan. Delays on northbound D trains, roads and highways appear to be clear at this hour. 64 and mostly cloudy, mostly cloudy today turning sunny in a high of 81, and then tomorrow's

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