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June 21, 2011
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Source: amNYThe cell phone has been repurposed as a miniature boom box — and it’s not music to everyone’s ears.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA wheel has come flying off MTA buses twice this year - and one of the frightening incidents was captured by a surveillance camera.
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Source: StreetsblogThe transit photo contest held by the Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives has moved into the final round. Five finalists have been selected for the photo that most captures New York City’s transit system at its best, and five have been chosen to represent the system at its worst. You can vote for your favorite here.
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Source: Albany Watch - Journal-NewsPublic-employee unions are rallying today across the state as 9,800 layoffs loom if unions and Gov. Andrew Cuomo can’t reach a labor agreement.
June 20, 2011
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Source: NY TimesThe mayor’s proposal would bypass the City Council, where the taxi industry’s opposition to the plan has sympathizers.
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Source: UFCW Local 1500What the workers at the Valley Stream, Long Island Target wanted was a fair and free Union election based on Democratic values. What the Target workers got was a campaign of threats, intimidation and illegal acts by Target management. Still, workers demanded an election be held without delay so they could send a message to Target: You will not suppress our votes; you will not deny us our rights.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowThe coalition We Are Ohio announced the astounding results of the statewide effort at a press conference today on the steps of the state Capitol in Columbus. Volunteers collected three times the 231,000 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot and did so two weeks before the deadline. Says We Are Ohio spokesperson Melissa Fazekas
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe doormen and porters of a Turtle Bay building owned by a one-time fundraiser for former Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on strike last week, allowing a mound of trash to pile up. Sanitation workers have refused to cross the picket line in solidarity, a DSNY spokesman confirmed.
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Source: WPIX 11The Senate passed legislation that bans smoking in ticketing, boarding or platform areas of the MTA Friday.
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Source: NY Daily NewsCourtesy of the "NYC Is Not For Sale" movement sponsored by CWA Local 1180, here's Bloomberg as everyone's favorite rampaging lizard. ...
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Source: Transportation NationThe Amalgamated Transit Union says it has an antidote to the recent plague of deadly long distance bus crashes: pay drivers overtime. The report contends that would limit drivers’ hours behind the wheel, reducing the time buses are operated in a state of fatigue, which is the leading cause of accidents.
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Source: DNAinfo.com
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Source: NY PostThey're victims of their own success. NY Waterway is warning customers planning to take advantage of its new East River ferry service to anticipate "long boarding delays" -- and possibly not even getting aboard -- this weekend and into next week as it continues offering free rides through June...
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Source: NY TimesThe nation’s main union for retail workers lost an effort to make a store in Valley Stream, N.Y., the first of Target’s 1,750 stores in the United States to be unionized.
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Source: NY PostA teenage boy learning how to drive — with his dad in the passenger seat — jumped the curb and crashed their black Mercedes Benz into a downtown Brooklyn subway-station sign today, police sources said.
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Source: NY PostTwo straphangers have learned the hard way that the NYPD certainly isn't "fixing" tickets for petty subway offenses.
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Source: amNYHundreds of hacks are expected to rally Monday outside city hall to protest a plan to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails in the outer boroughs and upper Manhattan.
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Source: ABC 7Police are looking for three suspects wanted for a series of robberies at a Harlem subway stop.
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Source:The subway can be hot, smelly and crowded, but I'll take it any day. It beats a boring bumper-to-bumper commute on the Garden State Parkway or Long Island Expressway to a sterile office park miles away from the nearest bodega.
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Source: NY TimesThe upgrade, if put into effect, would bring automated station announcements and digital route displays to more than 1,700 aging subway cars.
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