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August 18, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsFifty-one bus and truck drivers - including four MTA employees - have been busted for using fake names to obtain multiple licenses, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: NY1NY1 has followed the stories of several viewers who got $100 summons because of trouble with ticketing machines on the Select Bus Service routes. NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine went to court on Wednesday with a viewer and discovered many passengers are fighting a court process that is anything but transparent.
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Source: Alternetf the true success of the Wisconsin protests came from the alliances that unions, activists and community leaders built, then the Verizon strikers may have a chance to repeat Madison’s symbolic victories and ripple effects. On Wednesday, August 17, near a Verizon Business center and City Hall, New York City Verizon workers spent their second week on strike joining forces with a coalition of education activists to protest a $120 million, two-year contract the Department of Education plans to make with Verizon.
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Source: NY TimesHundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.
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Source: Gotham GazetteNew Yorkers will find it easier to pray at work, take time off for religious holidays, and wear headscarves, turbans or yarmulkes in the office under a bill passed by City Council.
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Source: NY PostThe city Department of Education's policy panel last night approved a controversial $120 million contract for Verizon during a contentious meeting attended by hundreds of workers on strike against the company.
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Source: NY PostA woman rollerblading on the West Side yesterday was crushed by an MTA bus near the entrance to the Circle Line.
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Source: InfrastructuristThe system would be pretty expansive. Its 10 routes would wind through roughly 95 miles of windy city. It would link up to Chicago’s existing transit lines and thereby increase transit trips throughout the region by 3 percent, with as many as 7,000 daily drivers converting to public transportation.
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Source:Metro-North Railroad officials say a train struck a car in Darien that was driven by a 92-year-old man who had stopped on the tracks.
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessThe Real Estate Board of New York says the tentative contract agreement with the concrete workers union is too generous and won't stop a trend toward nonunion construction.
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Source: NewsdayThe MTA was not alone in having to raise fares and reduce service because of the tough economy. But it expects to avoid drastic measures in the foreseeable future, transit officials said Wednesday.
August 17, 2011
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Source: NY TimesBrooklyn residents had sought to remove a hotly contested bicycle lane installed by the city on Prospect Park West.
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Source: AFL CIO NowWisconsin working family voters defended two of the Democratic state senators who stood up to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) attack on workers’ rights from a Republican/tea party-led attempt to recall the pair.
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Source: NY TimesA day after the state’s largest public-workers union agreed to accept wage and benefits concessions, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and labor leaders said the vote demonstrated that fiscally troubled states could cut work-force costs without attacking collective bargaining.
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Source: MetroAll aboard the train to the future. The Long Island Rail Road took its brand-new hand-held “Ticket Issuing Machines” for a test ride on select trains yesterday.
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Source: Brooklyn Daily EagleLegendary TV bus driver Ralph Kramden of Brooklyn would say, “Away we go!” about the new natural gas-powered buses just funded by Sen. Charles Schumer. On Monday the lifelong Brooklynite announced $33,862,400 in federal funding to purchase 74 new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses for Brooklyn and Queens.
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Source: NY TimesA new law expands the number of crimes that prevent people from qualifying to drive school buses.
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Source: MetroThe MTA has released the first look at the Apple store slated for Grand Central Station. Plans for the addition were approved in July. These renderings offer the first glimpse at the store's lay out.
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Source: The Brooklyn PaperA perp stole phones from two 12-year-olds at the Lorimer Street J-train station on Aug. 8 and fled on his bicycle.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe Brooklyn Public Library will restore weekend hours at more than half of its branches this September thanks to a rule change that will make union employees do basic work when the library’s actually open, not during overtime.
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