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April 7, 2011
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Source:How the movement for workers' rights can harness the energy of the present moment.
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Source: TWU.orgTWU members were hitting the ground during the afternoon meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and talking to politicians about the issues effecting working families. Members met with their Senators and Representatives to urge them to protect workers’ ability to organize, ensure workplace safety, protect Social Security and provide healthcare for all.
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Source: MSNBC.comPublic-sector unions are being assailed as never before by lawmakers looking to cut their pay and benefits. The attacks are making some workers reconsider their career choices. An msnbc.com special report.
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Source: NY Daily News
A punk often brandishing a gun or knife has been preying on teens in the Manhattan subway and cops are appealing to the public for tips.
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Source: NY TimesThe labor board asserts that a Thomson Reuters division violated an employee’s rights when a supervisor reprimanded her for a message she posted on Twitter.
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Source: WNBC 4There's an email threatening violence against school bus in New York. Andrew Siff reports with what parents need to know.
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Source: PoynterOne of the AP union’s mobilizations — “timed to start right as negotiations resume” — is a Tweet-out. Members are told: “Don’t post Tweets or Facebook any links to any AP stories. This is only for those NOT required to tweet as part of their job.” More AP union plans for next Monday and Tuesday are after the jump.
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Source: NY TimesTwo similar crashes — cars careening off the road into the same storefront — have raised concerns about a sharp turnoff at the end of the bridge’s ramp.
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Source: RMT.org.ukThroughout the incident log it was clear that there was pressure to get the service back on as soon as possible. At 16.38 a decision was taken to turn the current back on, that request was just about to be actioned when it was realized that there were still staff on the track at Embankment. That lack of “command and control”, admitted to in the report’s findings, could have led to a disaster.
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Source: Talking UnionToday, Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a hearing on the tentative collective bargaining agreement reached last month between the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the United States Postal Service. The move pushes Congress into uncharted territory.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Health Department reports that rodent complaints are down 2% citywide, but there sure seem to be more rodents than ever underground, markedly on the trains.
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Source: NY PostComptroller John Liu launched a counterattack yesterday on Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to push pension reforms through Albany by blaming poor stock-market returns -- and not outsized employee benefits -- for the sky-high pension bills that now consume 11 percent of the city's budget.
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Source: Tulsa World
TWU study exposes problems with outsourcing aircraft maintenance
Tulsa World
TWU International President James C. Little said members of the union are aware of their responsibilities to protect every passenger. "There's no room for error in the airline industry," Little said. "But we're not playing on a level field - not when ...
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Source: CBS New YorkIn New York City, where roughly 10 percent of revenue comes from Washington, thousands of locally-based federal workers would be furloughed.
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Source: CBS / APAmtrak has cleared equipment that closed one of the two rail tunnels leading in and out of New York City.
April 6, 2011
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Source:Speaking at a breakfast at the Transportation Equity Network’s annual conference, Amalgamated Transit Union president Larry Hanley ticked off a list of urban transit systems that slashed service during the first two years of Obama’s presidency. “This administration was indistinguishable from the prior one with respect to transit operating aid,” said Hanley. He said he was grateful for the new money budgeted for transit — but wanted to know “what can we do…to get the president to recognize publicly that what’s happening to transit is a national crisis and we need collectively to elevate this on the national agenda?”
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Source: DNAinfo.comEdward Little, an attorney for Jeffrey Melofchik, 49, one of three men charged in the deaths of firefighters Joseph Graffagnino, 33, and Robert Beddia, 53, said there's no reason to blame the defendants because city agencies involved in monitoring the faulty emergency water system at the 130 Liberty St. found no fault with their own conduct.
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Source: Wall Street Journal / MarketWatchCommunication has long bedeviled the MTA, an agency that has seen its primary focus as making the trains run on time, not telling people how to deal with them. The shortcoming often reveals itself vividly in the agency's construction projects.
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Source: MetroCan one button save you when you’re being robbed, harassed or even worse underground? The MTA thinks so.
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Source: 1010 WINSGone are the days when rats ran rampant only in New York City's subways.
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