Media Links - August 31, 2010
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Local 100 and members
- Subway Conductor [sic] Downplays Heroic Actions [links to 1.75-min video] - WPIX-TV
- Letter to the editor: Defending the Benefits Vote (paid subscription required) - The Chief
MTA cutbacks, budget and funding
- Transit workers, riders protest cuts - Newsday
- Editorial: What a Way to Run a Railroad: Should Long Island live without its trains? - Barron's
- Talking Transportation: If you’re not mad as hell yet, commuters, you will be - Ridgefield CT Press
Other MTA
- Smile! Subway to snap your pic: 340 surveillance-ready cars on order - NY Post
- Comptroller Looking for Fraud in M.T.A. OT (free registration required) - NY Times
- Editorial: Off the Rails (free registration required) - NY Times
- Smart Card Alliance Holds Transportation Council Meeting Hosted by MTA New York City Transit - Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council
- Combating congestion through variable-rate tolling - 2nd Ave. Sagas
- Spit, Glue and Maybe Even Chewing Gum (free registration required) - NY Times
Other metro NY transit
- Bus service for 7th- and 8th-graders is off again - Staten Island Advance
- A history of connecting the disconnected borough - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Safety and health
- Letter to the editor: ‘Transit’ Bite on 9/11 Deal (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- U.S. Labor Department's OSHA orders Utah Transit Authority to pay more than $130,000 to former worker in whistleblower case - USDOL
- Extend Deadline For Ill WTC Responders To Accept Settlement (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Can’t Bill Rescuers For $6.1M Interest, Judge Tells Lawyers (paid subscription required) - The Chief
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
- [Worcester MA ATU authorizes] strike: Vote gives board power if needed - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
- In Boston, Orange tape clears sticky MBTA situation: Facelift helps distinguish T radios from cellphones - Boston Globe
- Editorial - Statewide, Michigan transit needs a big push: Candidates for governor must address issue now - Detroit Free Press
- St. Louis Metro picks Nations as new transit chief - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Minneapolis Transit workers reject contract offer - Associated Press
- Editorial: Seattle Metro bus drivers should forgo cost-of-living allowance this year - Seattle Times
- Ottawa Council OKs new deal with Transpo workers: Agreement takes contentious scheduling issue off table in next round of bargaining with union - Ottawa Citizen
Transit policy
- Conservative Mag Tells Conservatives Why They Should Care About Public Transit - Infrastructurist
- Keep America Moving: A Special Symposium on Transit - American Conservative
NY public-sector workers
- NYC union officials urge using federal funds to rehire laid off school workers - Daily News
- OTB CEO Threatens To Void Pacts If Unions Don’t Make Givebacks: Labor Leaders Vow to Sue; Sunday Pay, Staffing And Seniority Rights Issues (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Editorial: OTB’s Unrealistic Demands (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- HHC’s Laundry Workers Hanging on the Line Again: Sue, Rally Against Privatizing (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Charge Pre-School Firings Are More Union-Busting (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- UFT: ‘Race to Top’ Shifts To Benefit Teachers, Too: State Gets $696M From Feds (paid subscription required) - The Chief
Public-sector workers outside metro NY
- Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees - AFL-CIO blog
- Fact finder: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing justified in AFSCME contract cuts - Detroit Free Press
- Deal between Miami Beach, CWA union falls apart; layoffs possible - Miami Herald
- Editorial: Sacramento strikes labor deal, at a price - Sacramento Bee
- South African strikers to vote on new wage offer - Reuters
Metro NY private-sector workers
- New York Congressional Members Ask Dr Pepper Snapple Group CEO to Return to Bargaining Table - RWDSU
Labor union policy and practice
- Labor Movement is Working for Rangel: New York State AFL-CIO Coordinating Grassroots Campaign on Behalf of Congressman - New York State AFL-CIO
- Unions in New York: A Labor Day update - Crain's NY Business
- AFSCME Bounces Fort As Tech Guild Leader For Defying Board (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- UAW President Bob King and Jesse Jackson lead Detroit march for jobs - Talking Union
Metro NY politics and economics