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March 3, 2011
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Source: NY TimesFor baby boomers and beyond, a comfortable retirement will be more difficult to achieve.
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Source: Labor Video Project
March 2, 2011
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Source: WCBS 880AM
MTA Chairman Jay Walder is ruling out a fare hike or service cuts to reduce costs, but the union president John Samuelsen warns to look toward maintenance. -
Source:BY Pete Donohue, Daily News Staff Writer: The MTA hasn't finished a new subway communications network - and it's already out of date.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW! BlogThe attacks on public employees has energized working people across the country, motivating them and helping them to believe they are going to win their struggle to keep bargaining rights in states like Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, says Katie Kistner, vice president of AFSCME Council 40 in Wisconsin.
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Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via ATUOver the last week, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85 has shown its opposition to reductions by staging daily rallies, purchasing newspaper ads, collecting more than 8,000 petition signatures and circulating fliers. The transit workers union also gained allies ranging from government officials to people dressed as zombies who rode around on buses slated to be cut.
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Source: Arizona Republic via ATUPHOENIX, AZ: About 40 Phoenix bus drivers called in sick Friday morning, disrupting at least six routes and generating nearly 100 calls to Valley Metro from passengers worried about transit service.
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Source: StreetsblogAndrew Cuomo's staff hasn't spoken to MTA executives about the authority's looming capital funding shortfall, according to MTA chair Jay Walder. The MTA is still staring down a $10 billion hole in its capital plan, and the consequences of that deficit continue to roll closer. Unless money is found by the end of the year, transit expansions like the Second Avenue Subway will slow down and important maintenance will be left undone.
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Source: Albany Watch / Journal-NewsAttorney General Eric Schneiderman today announced a $1.3 million settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. dealing with allegations that their delivery trucks are in “serious despair” but knowingly permitted on the roads in New York. Under the agreement, UPS paid $1.3 million in penalties, fines and costs, and agreed to have an independent inspector conduct [...]
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Source: Contra Costa Times via ATUOAKLAND, CA: The union representing some 1,600 AC Transit drivers and mechanics now plans to pursue better safety standards through grievance and, possibly, arbitration, saying past requests for the agency to make voluntary improvements fell on deaf ears.
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Source: GothamistDid you know that on March 1st, 1968 the New York State Legislature created the Metropolitan Transportation Authority? That's right, it's the MTA's birthday! All those years ago the agency was created to oversee transportation operations and to become New York City Transit's parent agency.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
City Rant: Alana and Audra vs. the Subway: MyFoxNY.com
New Yorkers love to sound off on what's bothering them about life in the big city. And Fox 5's City Rant is their chance to tell it like it is on TV.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson /Steve Madarasz, a spokesman for the Civil Service Employees Association, said the union is “taking great exception” to how the Mandate Relief Redesign Team’s report was put out today. The union has a representative on the panel.
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Source: NY Observer"The city's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, apparently thinks 34th Street needs a makeover. She wants to close the street to all traffic except for buses between Fifth and Sixth avenues—the very heart of the street—and wants to reroute traffic on either side of the no-car zone. Traffic would flow to the east from Fifth Avenue, and to the west from Sixth."
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Source: WABC 7
March 1, 2011
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Source: Fox 5 NY
MTA's Walder, Lawmakers Spar Over Payroll Tax: MyFoxNY.com
MTA Chairman Jay Walder was in Albany Monday explaining to lawmakers what New Yorkers can expect in the coming fiscal year. He told legislators in a budget committee for the coming year the MTA has a balanced budget -- this despite losing $100 million if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget goes through.
See also: NY1, WNYC
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"And by dirty little secret I mean the thing we already know. MTA can't pay for all of the megaprojects that are already underway. Ask yourself: would you add on another wing to your mansion if you cannot pay for your apartment?"
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Source: Albany Times-UnionWill the Tappan Zee Bridge someday be known as the Exxon-Mobil Skyway or the Ford Motor Co. Crossing? Probably not -- but the state Department of Transportation is at least looking at what role the private sector could play in plans to eventually rebuild the structure.
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Source: NY PostA straphanger was killed yesterday as he tried to walk between two subway cars and fell into the gap, police said. The unidentified victim was on an eastbound No. 2 train leaving the Nevins Street station in Downtown Brooklyn at 6:10 p.m. when he suddenly slipped, a transit...
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Source: NY ObserverLast week, the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved yet another increase in the budget for Santiago Calatrava's winged transit hub at the World Trade Center, bringing the price of the station up to a level once deemed untenable while also dipping into the Port's ground zero reserve funds for the first time. The station will now cost a total of $3.44 billion, up from an initial $2.2 billion.
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