Media Links - June 29, 2010
Local 100 and members
- Bus driver takes pounding in Brooklyn; New Yorkers fume as cuts hit home - Daily News
- Riders endure first workday with cuts; transit union inspections delay service - amNewYork
- 300 Bus Workers Taken Out of Service by MTA: Retirement Incentive Talks Stall - The Chief
- Toss Subway Award Over Unproven Claim Faulting Motorman - The Chief
MTA cutbacks and van network
- Long-running QM22 route saved by [TransportAzumah] - and one teenage rider - Daily News
- Controversial City Bus Battle Heats Up [with link to 1.25-min video] - WPIX-TV
- Livery vans to replace cut buses - YourNabe.com
- ATU Local 1056: Put the brakes on MTA's plans to cut its bus service in Queens - YourNabe.com
- Pols sue MTA over cuts: Suit focuses on effects on the disabled - NY Post website
- City Commuters Press On Despite Transit Cuts - NY Times
- Op-Ed: For Easy Targets, a Little Less of Everything [especially mass transit] - NY Times
- Painful MTA service cuts take effect [with link to 2.25-min video] - WABC-TV
- Commuters Face First Weekday Dealing With MTA Service Cuts [with link to 2-min video] - NY 1 News
- No. 7 subway train cuts will occur at year's end - YourNabe.com
- MTA service cuts make it a Monday from hell - Brooklyn Paper
- Straphangers, unite! Here’s what your fellow riders are saying - Brooklyn Paper
- Massive bus cuts hit Bronx straphangers hard - Bronx Times-Reporter
- Bx 14 changes is eliminated - Bronx Times-Reporter
- The Misery Starts as NY Transit Cuts Go Into Effect - Tri-State Transportation Campaign
- End of the Lines - Streetsblog
- Lawsuits abound to stop service cuts - 2nd Ave. Sagas
- On Day 1 of Doomsday, buses remain second class - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Other MTA
- Inspection Flaws Led to Collapse of Subway Ceiling, Report Finds - NY Times
- Falling-down conditions a subway threat - Daily News
- Look out below! Probe hammers MTA brass for station collapses - NY Post
- NYC Transit Warned Of Possible Collapse: Report Was Issued A Decade Before Actual Collapse [with link to 1-min. video] - FOX5-TV
- Transit’s first ad-wrapped car debuts along the 6 - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Safety and health
- Arbiter Joins Lawyers In ‘Selling’ 9/11 Settlement: Right Terms, Speedy Payment - The Chief
- Letter to the editor: Concerns About 9/11 Deal - The Chief
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
NY public-sector workers
- Little Diversity at Top of Bloomberg’s Administration - NY Times (page 1)
- Avert Worst Cuts But City Budget Requires 1,000-Plus Layoffs: Save Child-Protective Jobs, Fire Cos.; Chop Less In Day Care, Libraries - The Chief
- Editorial: Budget ‘Saves,’ Questions - The Chief
- Op-Ed: Case Against [ATU Local 1181] 'Busfellas' Dissident Smells Odd - The Chief
- Police, Firefighter Unions Target ‘Pension Roulette’: ‘Guarantee’ Bill Moves in Albany - The Chief
- A Bigger Pension Borrowing Plan - NY Times blog
- Fire Companies Saved, Unions Look to Keep Engine Staffing Intact - The Chief
- FDNY Boat Union Wants New Crafts’ Crews Represented - The Chief
- Doctors Council Wins Right to Represent Coney Island Staff - The Chief
- Letter to the editor: Ensley’s ‘Merit’ Legacy - The Chief
- Letter to the editor: Merit vs. Patronage - The Chief
Public-sector workers outside metro NY
- Union: Ending Saturday Mail Delivery a ‘Death Knell’ for Post Office - The Chief
- In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity [including 20% pay cut for public-sector workers] - NY Times (page 1)
Metro NY private-sector workers
- Union Radio Ad Slams National Grid, Con Ed On Wages - Daily News blog
- Grocery Workers Continue Contract Negotiations - FOX5-TV
- North General Hospital in Harlem Is Closing, but Clinics Are Ready to Take Its Place - NY Times
- Unions Oppose Wal-Mart As Bad-Labor Neighbor: Council Also Against City Store - The Chief
- Cuomo Backs Striking Workers At Mott’s - Albany Watch
Labor union policy and practice
- Donohue, Saunders Battle For No. 2 AFSCME Job: Winner May Succeed McEntee - The Chief
- Editorial: The AFSCME Dilemma - The Chief
- For the Record: [AFSCME Local 375 Leadership Struggle Continues] - The Chief
- Ex-COBA Board Member Seeks to Unseat Seabrook: Will Petition for Recall - The Chief
- Former Local 1505 Head Expelled for Taking Money - The Chief
- Letter to the editor: Unions Must Take Stand - The Chief
- Letter to the editor: Media’s Anti-Union Slant - The Chief
Metro NY politics and economics
- Living Expenses Rising Far Faster than Wages, Study Finds - NY Times blog
- Legislature Produces Budget Plan; Paterson Likely to Challenge It - The Chief
National politics and economics
- Republicans Imposing Sado-Economic Austerity on U.S. - AFL-CIO blog
- Court Upholds Democratic Election Rules Rail for Air, Rail Workers - AFL-CIO blog
- Op-Ed: Wrong Track Distress - NY Times
Etc.