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August 5, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsChoking on exhaust fumes, a horrified Bronx mother watched this week as an MTA city bus sped away with her 7-year-old son on board while she was still buying her ticket.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA self-proclaimed "guerilla historian" who claims to have taken an unsanctioned trip through an abandoned section of subway beneath the Bowery has posted a video of his adventure to share the experience with curious New Yorkers.
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Source: StreetsblogThe MTA is largely relying on borrowing to pay for the rest of its capital program. But other revenues it is counting on may not materialize, forcing the debt load even higher.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowThe AFL-CIO Executive Council this morning reaffirmed its support for comprehensive immigration reform. Here is the entire statement issued by the council.
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Source: StreetsblogStreetsblog sat down last week with Larry Hanley, the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union and member of the AFL-CIO executive council. Hanley started his career in New York as a bus driver in Brooklyn and then Staten Island, from 1978 to 1987. He became active in the transit union and worked his way up the ranks until winning election last fall as its youngest president ever. He is known for his creative responses to attacks on the union, including attempts to privatize express bus service, and his ability to build coalitions across many sectors.
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Source: Economix / NY TimesThe decline in organized labor's power and membership has played a larger role in fostering increased wage inequality in the United States than is generally thought, according to a new study.
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Source:Traveling on MTA buses in Queens is dizzying for even the most experienced commuters – let alone the every day New Yorker.
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Source: WNYCAfter a 24-hour period when stock markets around the world plummeted, there was a glimmer of good news Friday morning in the U.S jobs report.
August 4, 2011
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Source:NYC Transit fired two more workers in an investigation that revealed a subway signal maintenance man was granted leave - to sit in jail, sources told the Daily News.
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Source: amNYMayor Michael Bloomberg recently gave high marks to the city’s restaurant letter-grade system, but when it comes to his own performance, most New Yorkers don't appear impressed.
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Source: Daily PoliticsSenate Transportation Committee Chairman today said he is introducing legislation to raise the fines for those who attempt to steal free rides.
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Source: NY TimesAirport operators said that a prolonged delay in restoring federal funding for construction projects would eventually endanger airport safety and lead to more passenger delays.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowAFL-CIO union members and allies will engage in a fall America Wants to Work mobilization to move the national debate from the right wing’s manufactured debt crisis to the nation’s real crisis: jobs.
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Source: DNAinfo.comAn accident between a taxi and a bus at Broadway and West 66th Street left three people injured, the FDNY said.
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Source: CBS New York
Call it a cash crunch. Despite access to E-ZPass, a sizable percentage of drivers have not signed on, and are content sitting in long lines, and paying full fare.
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Source: NY Daily NewsWhatever Marie Antoinette's pampered pooch ate, it could not have been better than the dog food presently offered by a Chelsea butcher at $10 for 1.8 pounds.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyThree thugs jumped a 25-year-old on Avenue R on July 31, leaving him with several deep cuts. The victim was nearing E. Ninth Street at 3 am when the goons attacked without provocation, striking the Staten Island resident with a metal object.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyAssistant Chief Joseph Fox, a Brooklyn-bred top cop who led Patrol Borough Brooklyn South for more than a decade, has been tapped to lead the NYPD’s Transit Bureau.
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Source: ABC NewsPresident Obama met for more than hour with the executive committee of the AFL-CIO Tuesday morning, the same day he would sign the deal raising the debt ceiling, averting disaster, but angering the labor movement—a core Democratic constituency.
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Source: AFL-CIO Now
Saying “a worker is a worker,” Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), and several taxi drivers from New York City today told the AFL-CIO Executive Council they want to be a part of the national labor federation.
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