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The proposed deal would force New York City transit worker retirees onto private Medicare Advantage plans that frequently deny coverage.

Choke hold. his attorneys identify him as a 24-year-old marine veteran. were live from an upper east side. the they affected the train service on saturday. what can you tell us? >> yeah. poppy, 13 people were arrested after these protests spilled on to the subway tracks at the station behind me. the train was actually coming towards them and the train had to stop and a spokesperson for the authority say 450 passengers couldnt move forward for an hour as they cleared the subway tracks. theyre amo...

There are so many parallels with donald trump. netanyahu and donald trump, of course, extraordinarily close allies. i think it was almost like netanyahu thought he was going to school on donald trump. thought he might be able to do it better than donald trump. hes getting pushback like donald trump did on january 6th. >> we cant overstate the sizes of these protests. the union of lb health care system, transit workers, airports are shut. theres no way to get in and out of the country right now b...

Seeing the facts in california right now of that broken system. so my heart goes out to everyone in california and im watching in supporting our local officials, are transit workers, our first responders, everybody who is helping right now, and we need to send people from washington who are going to solve problems like this. thats the best thing we can do to ensure californian the country are safe going forward. >> its very common for sitting senators who are choosing not to run in the next elec...

ATU Local 689 members voted overwhelmingly to strike, days before the opening of the Washington Area Transit Authority’s new rail service extension.

Public employees across Argentina struck September 27, while 600 Santa Cruz, California city workers saw their threatened strike aborted.

To the floor. that is why we are sending these letters. these are bipartisan letters to move this legislation. like you, said if it comes to the floor it would pass, i hope it sets a stand-alone bill but as of right now i would take it if it was part of the nba or maybe the finding bell. we just needed to get done. in needs to get done this year. >> just to be clear, you would support this in any fashion that gets it done. politics aside. you are prepared to put aside the fact the republicans an...

This Labor Day, more than any, is a time to celebrate our Irish heroes who gave their voice to the workers of America. How could Labor Day not be an Irish holiday when the labor movement was inspired by giants such as Mike Quill, Mother Jones, Terence Powderly, and the founder of Labor Day, Peter McGuire.

Adam Burch is a bus driver in Minneapolis and member of ATU Local 1005 (written in a personal capacity) This “Summer of Inflation” - the latest in a long line of capitalist crises - is grinding working people down under the burden of rising prices, on top of crushing heat waves and a pandemic tha

City councillor demands: "When will this vaccination policy stop?”