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February 22, 2011
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Source: 1010WINS / Associated PressUniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy blames the outcome of Saturday's deadly blaze on staffing cuts enacted by Mayor Bloomberg and the city.
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Source: Associated PressLegislation that proponents say would close loopholes in New Jersey's law regarding mass layoffs may soon go before the full Assembly.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal NewsThe state United Teachers union unleashed its first salvo in the budget battle with a million-dollar ad campaign opposing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed $1.5 billion cut to education.
February 18, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsAn elevator at the deep-cavern subway station at 191st St. and St. Nicholas Ave. in Washington Heights may be the worst in the system, a faulty box of steel prone to breaking down and trapping people inside.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA scrapped plans to hire the main technology company working on the city's scandal-plagued CityTime project, officials said Thursday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will put back out for bid a $118 million contract for a subway radio system it planned on signing with Science Application International Corp., transit officials said.
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Source: NY PostPoor planning and bungling by the Department of Education led a $3.6 million contract for a computerized enrollment system to balloon to more than $23 million -- more than six times its original cost, the city Comptroller's Office said yesterday.
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Source: NY PostOpponents of a proposed New York City Walmart stepped up their fight against the super-store yesterday, importing workers from out of town to dish dirt.
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Source: Gotham GazettePresenting his budget, the mayor again raised the specter of teacher layoffs, and closing senior centers and fire companies. This time, many officials say, it could actually happen.
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Source: MetroThe fare is up and so are arrests for fare evasion. Transit police arrested 1,510 people for jumping the fare in December and 2,205 just last month. Both numbers are higher than in December and January of last year.
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Source: MetroINWOOD – A former cop busted three teenage thieves who tried to rob him on the 1 Line on Tuesday. Andrew McConnell ran after three kids who swiped his iPhone, trapping them in an elevator at the 191st Street station while the elevator operator called police.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA Brooklyn graffiti vandal got tagged with a 42-count indictment Thursday for using acid to etch his "GEAR" and "G7" markings into Queens bus shelters.
February 17, 2011
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Source:A subway manager and several workers suspected of faking signal inspections are being hit with internal disciplinary charges […] Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen said rank-and-file workers were being scapegoated. Management originally distributed codes to signal maintainers because the signals themselves, often tainted by oil or steel dust, couldn't be scanned. Workers were told to scan the photocopied codes when they returned to the office, Samuelsen said.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW blogThe AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce don’t agree on very much. But today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Chamber President Thomas Donohue told a Senate committee that labor and business agree on the vital need to invest in the nation’s transportation infrastructure to create jobs and boost the economy.
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Source: ABC 7
Mayor Bloomberg's preliminary 2012 budget is bad news for city teachers.
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Source: Mocker Blog
Some neighbors are suing the MTA and the Housing Authority sends a crew out to a falling ceiling.
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Source: MetroYou’re guaranteed to be late at least once a week if you travel on the Long Island Rail Road’s Montauk line, if its 89.4 percent on-time performance rating doesn’t improve.
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Source: MetroDespite fare hikes and service cuts, the subway is seeing its most riders in decades, as the MTA released 2010 ridership numbers this week: 1.60 billion people rode the rails in 2010. That’s 24 million more trips than in 2009, and one of its highest-volume years since 1950. And more people are riding the subway during the weekend than in over forty years. Bus ridership, however, is down nearly 3 percent from 2009, to 696 million in 2010.
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Source: AFSCME BlogAs the world watched the people of Egypt take to the streets in an effort to exercise their rights and have their voices heard, here at home in the USA, plans are being put into place to silence workers, lower their wages, cut their benefits and increase the likelihood that they will suffer injuries and fatalities at work. It is happening at a breakneck pace and too little attention is being paid.
In Columbus, Indianapolis, Madison, Tallahassee and other state capitols, newly elected politicians are working tirelessly to pay back their debt to the corporate CEO’s who funded their campaigns by destroying the power of working men and women to have a real voice on the job. The net result of this activity will be lower standards of living for all working people, while corporate interests gain more control and a greater ability to increase profits while privatizing public services and shipping jobs overseas.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew ads pushing Mayor Bloomberg to address a Health Department report that says 41% of viable city pregnancies end in abortion are hitting city buses today.
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