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January 9, 2012
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Source: VariousCoverage of the MTA's planned weekday evening shutdown of the 4, 5, 6 lines.
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Source: The NationOver the past year, a loose coalition of labor groups has redoubled engagement with the retail giant in a series of campaigns using nontraditional organizing strategies—namely, the formation of informal groups of workers that are not union certified but attempt to assert themselves to management all the same. OUR Walmart, the largest initiative, focuses on the company’s retail stores. Another new campaign, Warehouse Workers United (WWU), focuses on logistics workers in Walmart-contracted warehouses in Southern California and is launching a lean effort to coordinate workers internationally along Walmart’s supply chain.
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Source: NY Daily NewsCommuters who want a little more elbow room should head for the back of the subway, where it's generally less crowded.
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Source: NY PostThe members of the legendary comedic Midtown club are steaming mad after the MTA said it planned to start excavation work on East 55th Street as early as tomorrow, three months earlier than expected.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSon of 'two working stiffs' says he's not afraid to call a strike.
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Source: The Journal NewsWith such a huge cry for mass transit, most likely a specialized bus service, on the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge, it’s worth looking back at how that would be done. And the most basic answer is: No one knows. Not exactly, anyway.
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Source: NY TimesLast year, the authority posted information about train and agency performance, escalator status, turnstile traffic on the subways, bridge and tunnel plaza traffic, and more, then invited app developers to do what they could with it. The ensuing contest, called the M.T.A. App Quest, spawned 42 projects competing for $15,000 in cash prizes. The entries include apps for every major mobile platform (yes, even BlackBerry and Windows Mobile), e-mail services and Web sites. A panel of judges will pick most of the winners, but there are two popular choice awards. Public voting closes on Wednesday.
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Source: NY TimesConnecticut commuters may want to practice their indoor voices this weekend, because on Monday, Metro-North Railroad will introduce “quiet cars” to its New Haven line for the first time.
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Source: NY1The Fulton Street Transit Center, a major undertaking by the MTA which was initially planned for completion in 2007, has seen delays and an inflated budget, but the head of MTA Capital Construction now says he guarantees it will be finished in 2014. NY1’s Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: NY TimesThe National Labor Relations Board ruled on Friday that employers could not prevent workers from filing work-related group or class actions, essentially banning employment agreements at many companies that require workers to pursue all claims individually through arbitration.
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Source: The Star-Ledgershipping’s latest technological revolution is coming to the region, with plans for an automated terminal on the Jersey City-Bayonne border that will not require a human hand for part of the process of stacking the bus-sized shipping containers, which come from China and elsewhere bearing everything from toothpaste to Christmas lights.
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Source: Crain'sThe National Labor Relations Board rules that the Brooklyn-based kosher food company cannot cite immigration status to avoid paying lost wages to 11 of the 15 workers it fired in 2008.
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Source: NY PostSen. Chuck Schumer vowed to attach a popular commuter mass-transit tax break to legislation that would renew the US payroll tax cut.
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Source: Albany WatchAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, didn’t rule out a new pension tier for new state workers being pursued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but questioned the need for one after a new Tier V was enacted in 2009.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignWelcome to the inaugural “Winners and Losers,” your guide to the week’s heroic and villainous actions in tri-state transportation and smart growth.
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Source: The Island NowNassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced last week an agreement that would allow riders on Nassau Inter-County Express "NICE" buses to continue to use their Metropolitan Transit Authority MetroCards with the county's new transit provider.
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Source: The Architect's NewspaperIn the waning days of 2011, Shawn Kildare gave a tour 130 feet below Eleventh Avenue. Kildare, a senior vice president at the MTA, delivered some good news to the small group gawking at the huge caverns carved for the Number 7 Subway Extension. The project, he said, is ten months ahead of schedule and under budget. With the Second Avenue subway progressing in fits and starts, hobbled by community complaints, the new Number 7, which boasts few residential neighbors, looks poised to take the prize as New York’s newest subway exension.
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Source: NY TimesFor years I’ve ridden the N or Q train into Times Square from Brooklyn, across the Manhattan Bridge, which provides one of the greatest cheap visual feasts in America. For the price of a ride you’re suspended 135 feet above the city, looking out the windows to the southwest across the mouth of the East River toward the choiring strings of the Brooklyn Bridge and, far beyond, the brilliant oxidized green of the Statue of Liberty. In an illusion created by the perspective of the moving subway car, she appears to be gliding along the deck of the bridge — the world’s most famous hunk of French neo-Classicism, disco skating backward into Manhattan.
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Source: Transportation NationWhen Brian O. Selznick wrote “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a graphic novel about an orphan in 1930′s Paris, he imagined the secret spaces of the Gare Montparnasse, in Paris. For inspiration, he visited Grand Central Terminal, and drew his interiors in pictures that were three inches by five inches. But the scenes in the book — hidden tunnels, secret rooms, the giant clock tower — were all drawn from Selznick’s imagination, and then turned into the movie “Hugo,” by Martin Scorcese.
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Source: Daily YorktownPart of the Cuomo’s economic agenda includes a number of large scale construction proposals. His speech included plans for $25 billion in public-private partnerships, rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge and building the nation’s largest convention center in Queens. He also proposed regulating and allowing more gambling throughout the state. Whether or not members of the chamber listened to the speech in its entirety, many had the issues on their mind. New York State Assembly member Sandy Galef (D – District 90) and Ball took questions at the morning breakfast. Many discussed what they saw as abuses by the Metro-Transit Authority and concern about unfunded mandates to school district and municipalities.
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