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September 7, 2011
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Source: NewsdayNassau County Executive Edward Mangano's office recently said that my organization needs to "wake up" when it comes to plans for Long Island Bus.
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Source:A birthday celebration for Victor Gotbaum, who played a critical role in rescuing New York City from financial disaster in the 1970s.
September 6, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsAs our nation celebrates Labor Day, the working and middle class find their American Dream significantly under attack. Benefits that most American workers, both union and nonunion, have long enjoyed - enabling a decent standard of living for families - are being cut back or eliminated by corporations simply because they think they can get away with it.
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Source: NY PostThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority is challenging copycats attempting to obtain the trademark for its "If you see something, say something" counterterrorism slogan born in the wake of 9/11.
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Source: Journal NewsNever before Tropical Storm Irene came to town had the Metropolitan Transportation Authority brought all its transit to a halt — including New York City's subways and buses, Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road.
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Source: NY PostThe MTA inspector general and the state Labor Department are looking into allegations that Queens dispatcher Randy Carrington (pictured) forced drivers at the La Guardia Bus Depot in East Elmhurst to fork over cash and gifts, including comfort food, to get a nice bus.
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Source: United Steelworkers
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Source: GothamistLast week, the MTA made the historic decision to shut service across its system with Hurricane Irene's approach. It took a few days for the MTA to recover from flooding and service was restored—except to the Port Jervis line on the Metro-North commuter rail. The Port Jervis line, in the MTA's words, has sustained "catastrophic damage" and the agency has invoked "emergency powers" to get the line rebuilt.
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Source: NY Daily News"The days when the city could lavish ever-increasing compensation on its workforce are over."
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Source: Sun SentinelIn a one-paragraph memo issued Monday to the mayor and city commissioners, City Manager Johnny Martinez said he's declaring a state statute called "financial urgency" with regard to the city's contractual obligations with the police, fire, general employees, and city sanitation workers unions.
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Source: Washington Post“Obama campaigned big, but he’s governing small,” said Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union.
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Source: Fox 5 NYA turnstile at Manhattan's Columbus Circle registered more than 1.4 million swipes this past year, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Source: In These TimesThe net change in jobs in America last month was a big fat zero. Cuts in government jobs wiped out private sector growth that would have been moderate even if the Verizon strike had not temporarily reduced employment.
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Source: Business WeekFord Motor Co.'s unionized employees voted to authorize a national strike if talks between the company and their union break down.
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Source: NY PostAuthorities say the bus was coming from the Turning Stone Casino on Sunday when 29-year-old Brian Bauer, of Pittsburgh, fell from the emergency exit. Police haven't released a description of the vehicle.
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Source: NY PostTop managers on mega-MTA projects -- who haven't had raises in four years -- are bolting at an alarmingly high rate, leaving crucial positions vacant and prompting concern from federal regulators.
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Source:The "Boardwalk Empire" expanded to include a stretch of Manhattan this weekend as vintage trains rumbled from Times Square to 96th Street in hopes of strumming up attention for the beginning of the HBO show’s second season. Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110904/midtown/next-stop-1924-vintage-trains-roll-down-broadway-line#ixzz1XBPgu3TV
September 2, 2011
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Source: PoliticoAs unions have come under fire in states across the country, the differences in opinion between how Republicans and Democrats view organized labor have grown to historic margins, a new poll shows.
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Source: Washington PostDuring nearly four decades at the National Labor Relations Board, Lafe Solomon was a mostly anonymous cog in the federal bureaucracy. But that all changed in April, when Solomon filed a complaint alleging that Boeing violated labor law by opening a new manufacturing plant for its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe bus driver in a horrific Bronx crash that killed 15 people was sleep-deprived and driving recklessly when he lost control of the vehicle, prosecutors said Thursday.
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