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December 27, 2011
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceWhen Allen Cappelli, Staten Island's representative on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board, eloquently pleaded with the agency to restore at least some of the bus services it had cut here, he was rebuffed.
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Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)The Teamsters Union, which represents art handlers at Sotheby’s Auction House [NYSE: BID], has created an online petition that asks Sotheby’s to end its five-month-long lockout.
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Source: POLITICO.comThe National Labor Relations Board on Friday delayed a key union rule, postponing the date by which employers must put up posters displaying information about employee rights. “The Board’s ruling states that it has determined that postponing the effective date of the rule would facilitate the resolution of the legal challenges that have been filed with respect to the rule,” the NLRB said in a statement.
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Source: NY Daily NewsToken booth clerk Paul Vella, like thousands of transit workers, wasn’t home for the holidays. He worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Still, life is good. Or at least much better. Vella was laid off in May last year. He was one of nearly 1,000 transit workers pink-slipped by the MTA, which also eliminated dozens of bus routes and two subway lines to cut costs.
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Source: Associated Press / Fox 5 NY
Tough Choice Looms On 9/11 Health Lawsuits : MyFoxNY.com
More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund. Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/tough-choice-looms-on-911-health-lawsuits-20111226-apx#ixzz1hkgdUmVo
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Source: NY TimesMayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Friday that he expected an agreement would be reached to satisfy the city’s concerns about a plan backed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to allow a major nonprofit insurer to be converted into a for-profit company.
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Source: Miami HeraldMiami-Dade County said Friday it has reached tentative agreements with four unions, but reached an impasse on the contentious question of whether workers in those groups will have to contribute an additional 5 percent of their wages toward health-care costs. The county said the pacts cover the Transport Workers Union Local 291, which represents transit workers; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3292, which represents solid-waste employees; AFSCME Local 121, which covers water and sewer employees; and AFSCME Local 199, which represents employees across an array of departments
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Source: Fort Worth Star-TelegramUnions representing flight attendants at Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways have reached a tentative agreement with each other and the airlines on a new common contract.
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Source: DNAInfo.comIn what is being hailed as a victory for the handicapped and their advocates, a federal judge said Friday that the city must provide "meaningful" access to cabs for the disabled and ruled that until a plan to do so is developed, all new medallions must be for wheelchair accessible cabs.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceBeginning in January, the city’s X22A bus - which will make four trips in the morning and four in the evening - is going to start off on a route from Page Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville to the Outerbridge Park-and-Ride.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMaureen Rice, 59, accidently dropped her black leather pocketbook stuffed with $2,300 on the B61bus earlier this month while struggling to carry bags of holiday gifts. But she got all the money back because of the quick eye of driver Reuben Cornick.
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Source: New York Daily NewsGov. Cuomo has reached another contract agreement with a state employee union – this one representing the state's University Police, Park Police, EnCon Officers and Forest Rangers.
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Source: The Brooklyn PaperBrooklyn’s high-tech CEOs are calling on the city to give up its long-vacant eyesore at 370 Jay St. so that NYU can transform it into a flashy science center — the latest in a salvo of publicity for the cutting-edge project.
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Source: Westfair OnlineThe U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $10.5 million for upgrades to the Stamford Transportation Center, among the busiest stations in the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s network.
December 23, 2011
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Source: NY TimesIn what could be a new high water mark of anti-Washington sentiment, the city of Troy, Mich., is rejecting a long-planned transportation center whose construction would have been fully financed with federal stimulus money.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMayor Michael Bloomberg is entertaining offers for a new carrier for city employees' health insurance. A switch would destroy the value of the current nonprofit insurer, EmblemHealth, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo eyes changing into a for-profit enterprise that could add $1 billion to state coffers.
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Source: NY PostIn a nutshell, an arbitration panel decided that instead of awarding a 3 percent raise this year to members of the Transport Workers Union’s tiny Long Island Local 252, they would get nothing. Zippo.
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Source: The New York ObserverWhether all taxis will be accessible some day—perhaps Tomorrow—is still being worked out. While the mayor and governor were wrangling to get their vehicular way, The Observer has learned that Nissan considered making their new New York-only cabs handicap accessible, but the car maker felt the Bloomberg administration was indifferent to the plan and ultimately dropped it.
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Source: Streetsblog.netMuch like wide swaths of New York City outside of Manhattan south of 96th Street, Roosevelt Island has long been fetishized as a strange “other” amidst the urban life of New York City. Cut off from both Manhattan and Queens by water, the largely residential island with a few hospitals sits amidst the East River. The 59th St. Bridge passes over it, and only the F train, the Q0102 and a tram — how neat! — service the island. Its residents love it for its access and idyllic qualities amidst the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple.
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Source: NY1Some New York University students have a charitable idea for leftover money on your MetroCard.
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