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December 29, 2011
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Source: CBS New YorkDespite some major services disruptions this past year, cuts in service and a fare hike, riders seem to be happy with the service on the Long Island Rail Road.
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Source: ReutersSeven New York state unions filed federal lawsuits on Wednesday seeking to prevent Governor Andrew Cuomo from increasing the amount that retired workers pay for health care.
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Source: Associated PressThe union representing nearly 2,000 Hartford and New Haven building cleaners announced Wednesday night that it had reached a tentative, four-year labor deal with a cleaning contractors association, averting a possible strike next week.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceMr. Matlak is a graduate of New Dorp High School and received an associate’s degree in business management from the College of Staten Island. He is a motorman with the city transit authority in Brooklyn.
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Source: DNAinfo.comHemmed in by barricades and brandishing purple and yellow flags, hundreds of union workers, joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, rallied in Midtown on Wednesday afternoon to drum up support in their ongoing fight for higher wages as a strike looms.
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Source: NY TimesIn an unexpected move, nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx said Wednesday that they would strike on Jan. 10 if they could not resolve issues involving staffing levels and salaries.
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Source: NY1About 20 taxicab drivers protested outside a taxi garage in Long Island City, Queens on Wednesday, against what they say are outrageously high leases for cabs.
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessAdvocates say the long-criticized transportation service for disabled New Yorkers should be revamped as city officials reshape the taxi and livery industry.
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Source: MetroPolice are looking for the man at right who they say posed as a member of the NYPD and sexually assaulted a teen boy in a Sunset Park subway station.
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Source: The Star-LedgerIn what could amount to a hidden fare hike for more than 100,000 mass transit riders from New Jersey, the federal commuter tax benefit is being reduced from $230 to $125 a month beginning Sunday.
December 28, 2011
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Source: Times Herald-RecordSubway riders stuck all night in a train trapped by snow after a blizzard sued a transportation agency on Tuesday, saying officials told them it was simply "an act of God."
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessMegabus has filed three challenges since May 2010 with the Surface Transportation Board, asserting that BoltBus should be restricted or broken up.
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Source: 32BJ / Stand With Building WorkersThe 32BJ SEIU Bargaining Committee has announced tentative agreement for a four-year contract covering 7,000 office building cleaners around New Jersey. If ratified, the wages of building cleaners represented by 32BJ would increase each year over the four years covered by the contract.
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Source: APNegotiators for 1,300 nurses at a private New York City hospital have reached a tentative deal on a four-year contract to avert a threatened strike next week, while negotiations continue at two other hospitals where nurses have worked without contracts for the past year, officials said Tuesday.
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Source: NY PostA judge has given the green light to a controversial Upper East Side entrance to the planned Second Avenue subway.
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Source: NY PostMetro-North officials have agreed to a nine-point riders bill of rights that guarantees cleanliness, a safe, reliable ride and accurate, timely updates.
December 27, 2011
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Source: NY PostThe mayor recently put out a formal proposal seeking a new health-care carrier for the city’s massive work force, as Cuomo prepares a lucrative deal to convert nonprofit health-care provider EmblemHealth into a for-profit organization.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Riding The MTA Subway Escalators: MyFoxNY.com
The former head of the MTA Jay Walder admitted the organization did not do a good job repairing elevators and escalators around the city, but failed to offer a new plan of repair. The new head of the MTA, Joseph J. Lhota told FOX 5’s Ti-Hua Chang a plan has been put in place.
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Source: NY PostFurious passengers who spent eight nightmarish hours “imprisoned’’ on a subway train to nowhere during last year’s Christmas weekend blizzard are filing suit against the MTA.
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Source: Reuters Video
Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston breaks down how federal business regulations on labor unions can result in a lack of jobs and damage the economy.
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