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December 19, 2011
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Source: NYS AFL-CIO press releaseALBANY, NY (12/16/2011)(readMedia)-- Today, Mario Cilento was unanimously elected President of the New York State AFL-CIO by the organization's Executive Council. He assumes leadership immediately. Cilento succeeds Denis Hughes who announced his retirement plans last month.
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Source: Albany Watch / Journal-NewsA state commission is recommending the merger of the state Department of Transportation and the state Thruway and Bridge authorities as a way to save the state between $50 million and $82 million a year.
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Source: CBS New YorkFor the second year in a row, the city, along with Johnnie Walker, are offering free taxi, livery and public transit rides on New Year’s Eve and morning.
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Source: StreetsblogEarlier this week, Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff crunched the numbers to see what could happen if Governor Andrew Cuomo doesn’t follow through on his pledge to restore the $320 million in MTA funding cuts he signed into law on Monday. The cost to commuters, the economy, and public health, he found, could substantially outweigh the value of the tax relief.
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Source: AFSCMEAFSCME District Council 1707 is suing New York City over an early childhood education plan that would make drastic changes to child care services in the city and throw many providers out in the cold.
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Source: NY TimesOne of the ways in which this charming and often engrossing museum in Brooklyn Heights works, though, is to recognize that most of us are thoroughly convinced of its subject’s ordinariness. We approach the museum as we do the subway early in the morning, in calm resignation, prepared for whatever fate has to offer. We descend the steps almost as if we were ordinary straphangers, as if we didn’t realize this Court Street subway stop (complete with original enameled signs, tiled walls and miscellaneous turnstiles) was decommissioned long ago to be used as a museum.
December 16, 2011
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Source: VariousCounty executives and legislators have gone on record as opposed to a plan to build a replacement Tappan Zee Bridge without mass transit features, calling it "Obsolete from Day One."
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Source: Albany Times UnionThe fine print in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for "public-private partnerships" to pay for highways and bridges isn't out yet. The state outline looks like a rip-off of President Barack Obama's plan to pay for infrastructure construction. […] A bunch of somebodies in the state Legislature ought to put up a big, flashing yellow light on this one. New York's finances are in a big enough tangle.
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Source: NY1Transit workers rallied outside of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Manhattan headquarters Thursday to demand better wages and benefits in their new contract.
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Source: MetroOne week after New Yorkers return from their New Year’s Eve soirees, the 4, 5 and 6 will be taking time off for some R&R of their own.
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Source: amNYTransport Workers Union workers rallied outside New York City Transit headquarters Thursday to protest what they called an "unfair contract" being proposed by the MTA.
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Source: NY1The MTA has begun the installation of new barriers on city buses to help cut down on attacks against drivers, which saw a 17 percent increase this year. NY1’s Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: WPIXLIRR riders say they only have to go to their neighborhood station to catch a train and also catch a glimpse of a real life coyote.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal NewsThe state Republican Party slammed Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer yesterday, claiming the Mamaroneck Democrat is trying to have it both ways on the scaling back of the much-debated MTA payroll tax in New York City and its suburbs.
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Source: The Island Now: NewsNew Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District School officials expressed delight this week that the district will no longer have to budget $65,000 for the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll tax as a result of revisions in the state tax code.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOWThis summer, Alabama passed one of the harshest anti-immigrant bills (HB 56) in the nation and the parallels between that law and the old South’s Jim Crow laws are “all too real,” says William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU).
December 15, 2011
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Source: Metropolis / Wall Street JournalNew York City Opera is scheduled to begin mediation Monday with its two labor unions, in a bid to resolve a bitter contract dispute threatening to disrupt performances planned across the city this season, opera and union officials said.
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Source: BusinessweekPresident Barack Obama is nominating two new members to the National Labor Relations Board as the federal agency is in the middle of a partisan fight over the role of government in regulating business. The nominations of U.S. Labor Department official Sharon Block and union counsel Richard Griffin were announced yesterday, a week after the NLRB withdrew its case against Boeing Co. over building an airplane factory in South Carolina.
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Source: Huffington PostDoes Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz want to slap tolls on the BQE, as TollRoadsNews, an industry newsletter, has suggested?
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Source: Transportation NationThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said he’s been thinking about the “peace dividend” he expects once 1 World Trade Center is completed in 2013 – when the authority will be able to turn its energies toward “tens of billions” in overdue transportation infrastructure overhauls.
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