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July 12, 2011
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Source: LA TimesLast month, the board proposed to streamline the process that leads up to elections, in which workers choose whether to be represented by a union. Proposals include allowing petitions, election notices and voter lists to be transmitted electronically; advising the parties of their rights and obligations; deferring litigation over voter eligibility until after elections; and making board review of postelection decisions discretionary. Procedures that govern elections and challenges would become more straightforward and transparent.
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Source: RMTThe London Tube union RMT today cast a public safety warning over London Underground’s Olympic strategy for staffing stations as it emerged they plan to use “Non Licensed Volunteers” to work throughout stations doing “way finding”- a coded term for crowd control - a skill and task that should only be carried out by experienced competent members of staff.
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Source: amNYState Senator Daniel Squadron wants a review of the lines following a report in The New York Times that pointed out that the number of straphangers on weekends has boomed, resulting in long waits and crammed subway cars.
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Source: NY1The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge with a photo exhibit, and $1 billion in renovations have been planned for the next 15 years.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTo absolutely no one's surprise, the Working Families Party is endorsing Democrat David Weprin to replace Anthony Weiner in NY-9.
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessThe MTA announced on Monday the official launch of MTA App Quest, a competition intended to solicit tech developers' expertise in creating applications aimed at increasing access to travel information and to improving the overall travel experience for the system's 8.5 million daily riders.
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Source:New York City officials hope new technology will bring street parking spaces into the 21st century, and a private company will shoulder the cost of doing it. While city government could install next-generation parking systems itself, private investors would do it with their own money instead of city funds – and reap a share of the rewards for their own coffers.
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Source: Economix - NY TimesA tightening of monetary and fiscal policy in the belief that the Great Depression had run its course provides a cautionary tale, an economist writes.
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Source: NY Daily NewsWhat would you do if the MTA handed out a pink slip after 25 years of work? Get mad or get even? How about write a book and do both at the same time?
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA soon will award a contract to install tracks, signals and communications equipment - the backbone of subway service - in East Side tunnels carved out of Manhattan bedrock.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasNew York City recently passed an anniversary it would rather not commemorate for it was the one-year mark of the MTA’s service cuts. On June 28, 2010, as we all know, the MTA slashed two subway lines, rerouting another and cut numerous bus routes in order to cover a substantial budget gap. It was the first time in generations that the MTA had engaged in such extreme across-the-board cuts, and as many representatives in Albany today continue to fight over transit funding, those cuts serve as a real reminder of the power of the legislative pen.
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Source: WABC 7A Metro-North train derailed while leaving Grand Central Station.
July 11, 2011
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Source: Mock Blog / WPIX 11
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe city was packed with revelers who turned out for the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, but Michael Virdree had something other than the Goya girls on his mind.
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Source: NY PostMunicipal labor leaders facing difficult contract negotiations are openly talking of "waiting out" Mayor Bloomberg to reach more favorable settlements with the next mayor.
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Source: The HillPresident Obama’s apparent willingness to discuss Social Security cuts in the debt-ceiling negotiations with Congress has angered labor unions and could cause them to withhold support for Democrats in the next election.
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Source: Wall Street JournalWhen a tax-revenue shortfall forced the MTA to cut two subway lines and eliminate or restructure more than 100 bus lines a year ago, tens of thousands of New Yorkers scrambled to figure out how they would get around with a lot less mass transit.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesCity Room wants our readers to chime in with their own memories. Is there such a thing as nostalgia for that dark time of the underground?
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Source: Economix - NY TimesTo their shame, policy makers have neglected the nation's most important economic problem -- creating jobs -- an economist writes.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLong considered a "shadow government," public authorities serve as patronage mills that operate in secret and ring up hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, critics charge.
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