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January 17, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsSources said the plan that has been under consideration would offer for the first time a choice to new employees to accept reduced pension benefits or opt into a 401-K-like defined contribution plan. Two years after the state enacted a new less generous pension tier and a year after accepting concession-laden contracts, the unions have said they will vehemently oppose any pension changes.
January 16, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsWhen the labor contract for 34,000 transit authority employees expires at midnight Sunday, the subways and buses will continue to keep the city moving.
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Source: NY1The city's buses and subways are running today even after the transit union's contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority expired at midnight.
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Source: NY TimesThousands of volunteers have raced to collect signatures near busy intersections and malls all over Wisconsin, at makeshift “drive-through” operations in parking lots, during Green Bay Packers viewing parties and New Year’s Eve pub crawls, and even at a fold-up table inside Milwaukee’s airport just off Concourse C.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTHE CRIMINAL investigation into subway workers faking signal inspections and maintenance tasks is now focusing on a memo written by a high-ranking manager.
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Source: NY TimesRetail workers in New York City earn a median of $9.50 an hour, most are part-time or temporary, and just 3 in 10 receive health insurance through their jobs, according to a new study of the city’s larger retailers.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe transit contract expired at midnight Sunday without a deal — and the leader of 34,000 bus and subway workers had only harsh words for MTA brass and Gov. Cuomo.
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Source: PolitickerNYAs the MTA’s contract with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 was set to expire at midnight last night, hundreds of workers gathered in the bitter cold outside the negotiations at the Sheraton Hotel in midtown for a raucous rally where they were joined by several local politicians.
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Source: NY PostTransit officials and the bosses at the Transport Workers Union Local 100 had agreed recently to extend the talks beyond the deadline without the dire consequences of past years — like the 2005 holiday-season strike that crippled the city.
January 13, 2012
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Source: amNYThe unidentified woman was hit just before 7 a.m. as an M86 bus made a right-hand turn onto 92nd Street from First Avenue, according to transit and fire officials. It took more than 30 minutes for firefighters and EMS workers to free her from under the bus.
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Source: NY1Agency officials say they plan to expand Amtrak’s fleet by 70 new locomotives. They also plan to add 130 new long distance cars and e-ticket capabilities on all trains.
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Source: amNYSources told amNewYork the negotiations are going amicably, even though the MTA says it has no money for wage increases over the next three years and TWU president John Samuelsen has "dug in" against a pay freeze. Both sides doubted a deal would be finished in time.
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Source: NY TimesWhy isn’t a national economy like a corporation? For one thing, there’s no simple bottom line. For another, the economy is vastly more complex than even the largest private company.
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Source: NY TimesMayor Michael R. Bloomberg, directly confronting leaders of the teachers’ union, proposed on Thursday a merit-pay system that would award top performers with $20,000 raises and threatened to remove as many as half of those working in dozens of struggling schools.
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Source: Fox NY
Escalator Meltdown in Midtown: MyFoxNY.com
Every escalator at the 53 Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, one of the busiest in the city, was offline Thursday morning. Seven of seven escalators are out at the height of the morning commute 8:15 to 9:15, when tens of thousands of commuters are rushing to work.
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Source: VariousThe MTA's 4 night shutdown of the Lexington Avenue line has finished its work, but looming over the weekend is a shutdown of service on the 7 line. Here are reactions in the press.
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Source: VariousFrom NY Daily News: "Wadsworth Car Service admitted to stealing $30,000 from the MTA’s Access-A-Ride program with a bogus billing scheme between June 2009 and January 2010 — but law enforcement sources said they suspect that’s just a fraction of the amount looted."
January 12, 2012
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Source: Journal NewsAdding mass transit to the $5.2 billion replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge would delay the project at least two years, state Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald said Wednesday.
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Source: NY PostThe MTA is conducting locals-only tours of the $4 billion project to appease the well-heeled squeaky wheels, who have blamed the subway extension for everything from a rat infestation to blasting-induced dust storms plaguing their neighborhoods.
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Source: VariousTalks about Walder, rats, and finances.
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