Media Links - June 28, 2010
Local 100 and members
- MTA nixed our bid to save $35M and workers' jobs, says transit union chief - Daily News
- Disabled riders cry foul, say MTA's bus cuts violate law requiring equal treatment for handicapped - Daily News
- MTA Set to Slash Service on 'V' and 'W' Subway Lines [with Local 100 response to MTA offer] - 1010 WINS
- Editorial - Save the workers: The MTA and the TWU must reach a deal to avoid layoffs - Daily News
- Letter to the editor: MTA bosses should take a hike - Daily News
- TWU Accuses MTA Of Nixing $35M Offer - Transit Blogger
MTA operations
MTA cutbacks
- MTA cuts: Queens residents protest new residential route of Q15A bus - Daily News
- Editorial - The great train robbery: These pols slashed transit funds then blamed the MTA - Daily News
- Op-Ed: Bloomberg can make slight improvements, but City Hall doesn't have money, power to improve transit - Daily News
- As New York City bus cuts arrive, so does confusion - and a jab at the MTA - Staten Island Advance
- Staten Island buses being pulled out by the routes - Staten Island Advance
- Day 1 of MTA's 'slash' transit - NY Post
- After Cuts, MTA Plans Helping Hand - Wall Street Journal
- Riders get the first taste of cuts; more to come Monday - amNewYork
- Doomsday dawns for riders in city transit system - Metro New York
- Next Stop on the W Train: History - NY Times
- Straphangers Face Bus Route Changes, End Of W, V Trains [with link to 1.5-min video] - NY 1 News
- A Guide to NYC Bus and Subway Service Cuts - WNYC
- 2 subway lines to end amid NYC transit budget woes - Associated Press
- 11 LI Bus Lines set to be eliminated Sunday - Newsday
- Letters to the editor - Queens Tribune
- MTA Open Thread: How Will Service Cuts Affect You? - Streetsblog
- Putting the service into customer service - 2nd Ave. Sagas
- The temporary permanence of subway routes - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Van network
- Brooklyn man at odds with City Hall for using private buses to rescue riders - Daily News
- Higher Costs and Lower Quality as Public Services Go Private - Huffington Post
Other MTA
- MTA site hardhat crushed: B'klyn truckload slide - NY Post
- Editorial - That's the ticket: Cameras that catch and fine bus-lane violators get the okay - Daily News
- Stapleton subway conductor accused of bilking NYC Housing Authority of $48K - Staten Island Advance
- Subway Woes, Now and Then - NY Times blog
- The MTA Could Really Use a Copy Editor - Village Voice blog
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
NY public-sector workers
- Op-Ed - Sickening 'sweeteners': NY lawmakers' next giveaways - NY Post
- Op-Ed: How to fix the pension mess - NY Post
Metro NY private-sector workers
Labor union policy and practice
Metro NY politics and economics
- Pension woes may keep many on job longer: Underfunded Teamsters plan typifies multiple-employer arrangements - Buffalo News
- Bloomberg's Million-Dollar Ripoff: The mayor's 'crime' - Village Voice
National politics and economics
- U.S. Social Forum: Marchers Demand ‘Money for Jobs, Not Banks’ - AFL-CIO blog
- Labor’s New Critics: Old Allies in Elected Office - NY Times (page 1)
- The labor movement and Obama - Leo Gerard: Obama isn't the problem, it's corporate Democrats and the Republicans [with link to 12-min video] - Real News
- Krugman: The Third Depression - NY Times