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August 2, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsHundreds of union concrete workers walked off their jobs at the World Trade Center Monday in a citywide work stoppage over wages and the use of nonunion labor.
August 1, 2011
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Source: Mocker Blog / WPIX 11
Greg Mocker talked with State Senators Daniel Squadron and Marty Golden .. at their home subway stations.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Fulton Street Hub Back On Track: MyFoxNY.com
The MTA announced on Friday it will finally open a new entrance to the problematic Fulton Street Transit Hub on Monday.
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Source: Fox 5 NYThousands of union members from many states are expected at rally outside Verizon corporate headquarters.
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Source: NY TimesExtortion over the debt ceiling wins, and the country loses.
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Source:Officials are trying to get to the bottom of what happened last Friday when a New Haven Line train got stranded near Westport.
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Source: NY PostIf Gov. Cuomo thought his first half- year in office was tough, wait 'til he takes up his newest challenge: finding an MTA boss who can win affordable transit-union contracts.
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Source: WPIX 11
People are wondering how it could take five hours for the Port Authority and NJ Transit to locate a bus that was missing in action last Thursday. When they did, they found the bus driver, Thomas Truex of Edison, New Jersy, slumped over the wheel, dead.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasIn the three-year budget released this week, the MTA announced that the R32s, already 47 years old, will have to last until 2017 when the MTA can bring the R179s on line. Fifty-three year old rail cars will be a sight to behold.
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Source: Crain'sJay Walder's successor probably won't come from lucrative private sector.
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Source: NY TimesJay H. Walder cited an alluring offer from Hong Kong for his departure from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but friends say money troubles and other factors also played a role.
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Source: NY TimesThe audit says the transit agency inadequately alerts riders to track diversions for maintenance, and is failing to control diversion expenses.
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Source: TennesseeanThe United Auto Workers union is gearing up for a fresh push to organize workers at the new Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, in what union officials hope will be the first in a series of successes to gain a renewed foothold in the right-to-work South.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA again showed itself to be a complete patsy, unwilling or unable to get tough - unless it is squaring off with riders or its own bus and subway workers.
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Source: NY Daily News
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Source: NY PostIt's a long time to go be fore the 2013 mayoral race, but the leader of the city's largest municipal union is already talking up the candidacy of Comptroller John Liu.
July 29, 2011
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Source: YourNabe.comAlthough the Flushing-Main Street station came out near the bottom in the Straphangers Campaign's check of which subway station telephones work, several other Queens stations fared much better.
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Source: Fox 5 NYPolice continue to investigate a suspicious vehicle at the Long Island Rail Road station in Seaford, Long Island. There are unconfirmed reports a dead man was found inside a black pick-up truck with propane tanks Thursday morning. There was a heavy police presence in the parking area of the station including arson and bomb squads.
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Source: New York TimesThe Communications Workers of America said members overwhelmingly authorized a strike if their contract expires Aug. 6 without agreement.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignToday the MTA announced its budget proposal for 2012 and explained how it plans to fill a $9 billion gap in its capital construction program. Media reports were generally positive, but transit advocates were critical of the plan because it relies on the issuance of $7 billion in more debt and puts more of the burden of funding the system on transit riders and the next generation of New Yorkers. The agency says it has no choice since Governor Cuomo has no appetite for new revenue. The deficit in the New York State Department of Transportation’s capital program is reportedly the focus of the Cuomo Administration.
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