Media Links - September 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
- Second Look At MTA Overtime Abuses A Double-Edged Sword (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- There They Go Again: TWU Rivals Quarrel Over Steward’s Visit (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Transport Workers Endorse Joe Addabbo for State Senate - Lost in the Ozone blog
- Appleton endorsed by Transport Workers Union of Greater New York Local 100 - Cynthia Appleton for New York State Senate
- Private deal keeps subway booth clerk - Metro New York
Other MTA
- Mocker Speaks About New MTA Speechwriter [links to 2-min video] - WPIX-TV
- Metro-North halting hires after perv flap - NY Post
- Rapist MTA staffer busted over 'subway honcho act' - NY Post
- A history of futility for Utica, Nostrand extension plans - 2nd Ave. Sagas
Other metro NY transit
- DeCamp Bus Union Strike Turns Violent: Tension erupts at Montclair headquarters as work stoppage continues - CaldwellsPatch blog
- DeCamp strike to continue through weekend - Newark Star-Ledger
- Drivers Protest Decamp, With Rat - Baristanet blog
- Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wants tighter security at Trailways bus depot in Hoboken - Daily News
Safety and health
Transit workers and systems outside metro NY
- Ottawa transit union warns of potential problems next week - CTV
- Strikers in Paris and London Snarl Travel - NY Times
- London Faces Transport Turmoil as Subway Workers Plan Strike Over Job Cuts - Bloomberg News
- Strike Solid As RMT Demands Rail Regulator Investigation Into Breaches Of Post-Kings Cross Fire Safety Rules - RMT
- London Tube safety strike protest at Euston - RMT
- Tube Maintenance Strike Rock Solid - RMT
- London Underground playing “fast and loose” with safety as strike looms - RMT
Transit policy
- Obama Offers a Transit Plan to Create Jobs (free registration required) - NY Times
- Obama Unveils Huge Infrastructure/Jobs Program at Milwaukee’s LaborFest - AFL-CIO blog
- Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program - Associated Press
- Republicans Hate Obama's Infrastructure Plan; Local Construction Industry Loves it - WNYC
- Op-Ed: [With Transit Plan, Obama is] Rising to the Occasion (free registration required) - NY Times
- Text of President Obama's Labor Day Speech and White House Fact Sheet on Renewing Transit [with link to video of speech]
- Report: Investing in Transit Could Create 180,000 Jobs, for Free - Streetsblog
NY public-sector workers
- Op-Ed: State’s Public Employees Have Shared in Sacrifice, Not to Blame for Crisis (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- State Okays 4,600 Worker Retirements, Exceeding Its Target (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Deadline Passes But OTB Talks Continue: Unions Reject CEO’s Demands (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- 44 Queens Library Staffers Laid Off After Vetoed Deal: Union Rejected Vacation Giveback (paid subscription required) - Chief
Public-sector workers outside metro NY
Private-sector workers outside metro NY
Labor union policy and practice
- For the Record: [NYS AFL-CIO positions on Rangel and bipartisanship] (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- PSC Backs Schneiderman For AG–‘Fighting for Us’: ‘Supports Taxing Wealthy’ (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- District Council 37 Endorses Brodsky – Gotham Gazette
- After a Life in Labor, a Union Leader Retires, Frustrated by the Movement’s Troubles (free registration required) - NY Times
- Editorial: AFSCME’s Funny Business (paid subscription required) - The Chief
Metro NY politics and economics
- Cuomo: Labor, be part of the solution: Public employees unions must make sacrifices for sake of the state - Daily News
- Candidates for Governor All Pledge to Be Labor Pains: No Raises, Fewer Jobs (paid subscription required) - The Chief
- Cuomo wants unions to agree to cuts to help save the state like in 1970s crisis - Daily News
- East Side Incumbent Faces Challenge from Unions and the GOP - Gotham Gazette
National politics and economics
- Labor Day 2010: America’s Workers Losing Ground - AFL-CIO blog
- September 15, 2010: Jobs Emergency National Day Of Action - Jobs with Justice
- Editorial - Labor pains: On the holiday that honors work, there's not enough of it to go around - Daily News
- Krugman: [Forgetting the history of] 1938 in 2010 (free registration required) - NY Times