Media Links - July 7, 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
- MTA's layoff of bus drivers stuns soldier in Iraq, now he worries about his family - Daily News
- Train crews dish about what like and loath, along with weird tales from the job - amNewYork
- Op-Ed: Where the MTA should be saving - NY Post
- The Post Plays Bad Cop, Busting MTA Employees Playing Hooky [with link to 45-sec video of Bloomberg praising most MTA workers] - Village Voice blog
- Clerk Assaulted While Trying To Help A Rider - By Transit Blogger
MTA cutbacks, substitute services and budget
- Mocker: MTA Hires 'Wasteful Spending' Exec [for $217,000/year] To Cut Costs[!] [with link to 4-min video] - WPIX-TV
- MTA to Save $10 Million by Consolidating Redundant Functions: Call Centers, Media Relations and Communications Production Targeted for Cost Savings - Diana Jones Ritter Joins MTA to Oversee Cost-Cutting Efforts as Managing Director - MTA Press Office
- City tells private bus line owner to hit the road after judge signs temporary restraining order - Daily News
- Op-Ed: DOT Doesn’t Want Private Operators To Fill the Slack After MTA Cutbacks - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- A pro-forma floor vote comes back to haunt some Staten Island pols - State Island Advance blog
- From Staten Island, an insight into Albany’s crazy thinking - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Other MTA
- MTA sells off subway name rights for cheap - Metro New York
- Not Déjà vu, but history repeating itself due to MTA stupidity and senility Pt. II - YourNabe.com
- Underground Art - NY Observer blog
- 'Green' water used to wash subways - Queens Courier
- New York Mag Takes a Look at Future of NYC Buses - Tri-State Transportation Campaign
TWU international and other locals
Safety and health
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
- Cleveland RTA plans to avoid fare increases and service cuts in 2011 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
- In California, AC Transit imposes contract on drivers, mechanics - Contra Costa Times
- RMT takes rail cuts protest to National Rail Conference this Thursday - RMT
- RMT sounds safety alarm over 40% transport cuts - RMT
- In Greece, strike to paralyze transport, services - Kathimerini
NY public-sector workers
Public-sector workers outside metro NY
- Chicago Fire Department OT [necessitated by furloughs] wipes out furlough savings - Chicago Tribune
- Court backs California state worker pay cuts, Chiang will appeal - San Jose Business Journal
- SEIU Local 1000 Minimum Wage Statement
Metro NY private-sector workers
Private-sector workers outside metro NY
Labor union policy and practice
- Remembering Charles Ensley, Union Reformer for an Uncertain Age - In These Times blog
- LabourStart Conference to Explore Global Worker Solidarity - AFL-CIO blog
National politics and economics
- Op-Ed: Overtaxing the rich isn't the answer - Washington Post
- Op-Ed: A coalition builder's lesson for progressives - Washington Post
- Our Epic Recession: How Did it Happen, and How Bad Will It Get? - In These Times blog
- A Dangerous Combo: Weak Job Markets and Republican Stupidity - In These Times blog
- What Recovery? For the Unemployed, the Pain Gets Worse - NY Times
- Illinois Stops Paying Its Bills, but Can’t Stop Digging Hole - NY Times