Media Links - July 8, 2010
These links are provided for the information of Local 100 members. Local 100 does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in them.
Local 100 and members
- Rough ride as MTA cuts car inspections: 100 car inspectors laid off on July 2 - Metro New York
- NYC: Take back our transit system - Redguard.com
MTA operations
- Sluggish A/C on new MTA buses - amNewYork
- Heat Wreaking Havoc with Mass Transit - WNBC.com
- A, C, F, G Trains Delayed Over Heat, Low Voltage - WNBC.com
MTA cutbacks, substitute services and budget
Other MTA
- Though Stifling, Subway Platforms Cooler Than the Ground Above - Wall Street Journal
- What Are the City's Hottest Subway Stations? - Asylum.com
- MTA's 'nap' commission - NY Post
- The Tremendous Potential (and Ultimate Limitations) of Buses - Huffington Post
- Making buses slightly sexier - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
- Cleveland's BRT moving slower than expected [that is, the same speed as the regular bus] on Euclid Avenue - Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Chicago gets grants for transit projects - Chicago Tribune
- RMT secures massive victory for low paid workers as tube cleaners win fight for London Living Wage - RMT
NY public-sector workers
- Cuomo Finds Pattern of Workers’ Inflating Pensions - NY Times
- Pension Padding: We All Pay the Price - Office of the NYS Attorney General
- NYC Education Department central office hired 70% more employees since 2003 amid school budget cuts - Daily News
- Westchester retirement incentive saves Westchester $7 million - Mid Hudson News.com
- Binghamton City Council approves Teamsters contract covering 170 municipal workers - Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin
- Orchard Park NY contract with concessions, raises approved - Buffalo News
Metro NY private-sector workers
- Scoop settles [RWDSU] wage-violation lawsuit: 17 former workers claimed they were not paid the legal overtime wage - Crain's NY Business
- Mott's strikers get boost from grocery workers' union - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Labor union policy and practice
Metro NY politics and economics
National politics and economics
- 75th Anniversary of National Labor Relations Act: Unions the Answer Then and Now - AFL-CIO blog
- Washington Post Whopper on Trumka, Social Security and Taxes - AFL-CIO blog
- National Employment Law Project Statement on June Employment Report
- Republicans: a party of unemployment - It may seem bad taste to accuse Republicans of wanting a rise in unemployment but their actions leave no other explanation - (UK) Guardian
- Unjust Spoils - The Nation
- Child Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism: Forgotten Casualties of the Recession – CounterPunch