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On himself. janai norman on this story once again. >> reporter: were hearing from those being hailed heroes tonight. for the first time, the brave new york city transit workers speaking out. >> passengers were coming off the train, falling to the floor. i was shouting to people, get on the train, get on the train. >> reporter: train operator david artis, describing the tense moments he rushed to get passengers out of the smoke filled subway car to the safety of another train across the platform....

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Who had set off fireworks and were throwing stones. the violence comes as tensions continue to soar across israel and in the palestinian territories. over the past few weeks, 14 people have been killed in israel following a series of attacks carried out by palestinian assailants, while 25 palestinians have reportedly been killed following a wave of unrest and military operations by rel forces in the west bank. this weekend is expected to be particularly tense at religious sites in jerusalems old...

Toward the new years holiday under a tidal wave of new covid cases. shattering the daily record with nearly half a million infections wednesday or roughly double the previous high last winter the 1.9 million cases in a week mean three americans are now testing positive every single second. with new york city at the epicenter, notching 74,000 infections in 24 hours. >> we want to show the world that new york city is fighting our way through this its really important to not give up in the face of ...

Asymptomatic, you can leave. you can leave isolation. that is significant because theres a lot of concern obviously for the transit workers, for the police officers, the firefighters, emt emts, those front line workers we have been talking about for well over a year, theyre going to get knocked out by this, and services are going to be lacking. shes changing the guidelines of that. this, of course, as we know about new years eve here, the mayor out of concern of the rising numbers here saying th...

The emergency removal of over half the transit authority’s rail cars in October has exposed the dangers which the region’s political establishment had been willing to expose the public to in order to keep the economy running.

Farmworkers in Sonora state rebelled against terrible working conditions and seized control of a migrant camp while transit workers in Buenos Aires staged a wildcat strike demanding a wage increase and year-end bonuses.

Here's this week's Ask The Mayor segment on the Brian Lehrer Show, where de Blasio fields questions from Puerto Rico about the vaccine mandate, Somos, the taxi strike, election results, and more.

John deere company are in their ninth day of their strike against that company for better wages and benefits. 1,400 americans working at the kelloggs cereal company are in the third week of that strike in multiple states. tens of thousands of employees it a kaiser company could go on strike at any time. that decision could come at any time. this week 300 flight attendants working for a subsidiary of american airlines voted to authorize a strike. in philly we learned that transit workers there ma...

Market. steel workers in portsmouth, virginia, and firefighters in columbus, ibw workers and iron workers and nurses and grocery store workers in cincinnati, plumbers and gas fitters in maryland, aft teachers in virginia. by the way, of course, i sleep with a member every night, same one. [ applause ] >> jill had her first day of full-time teaching yesterday this year, back to school. look, ive talked with union transit workers, machinists, laborers and welders in wisconsin. weve had teamsters h...