UPS drivers strike or lock-out cripples Chester area
In Chester the Teamsters Local 177 locked out 64 UPS drivers, halting entry to the Chester warehouse and affecting 15 UPS offices and 2,630 union workers across New Jersey and nearby New York counties. Union leader Donald Lawson says management aims to break the union, while village police guarded the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trudy Tynan Goshen
Chester
Teamsters
United Parcel Service
UPS
Trenton
Tom’s River
New Jersey State Line
Staten Island
Rockland
Orange Counties
New York
Daniel Buckley
Greenwich, Conn
Buckley
Teamsters Local 177
Irvington
N.J
Farmingdale
Donald Lawson
Lawson
Chester Village
Rail bond fuels Albany area repairs and statewide power shift
A bill approved by both houses would activate a 250 million rail bond to fund more than 30 million in mid Hudson repairs and distribute 187 million in contracts for rail upgrades including Erie-Lackawanna and Penn Central lines. The measure also reconstitutes ASDA into a state energy authority as part of a broad transport funding package.
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Albany
Mid- Hudson
State Senate
Senate
Assembly
Upstate
Hugh L. Carey
Raymond T. Schuler
Cementon
Kingston
Lloyd
Highland
Erie-Lackawanna Railway
Pennsylvania
Orange County
Suffern
Penn Central Railroad
Poughkeepsie
Kingston-to-Stamford
State Atomic and Space Development Authority
ASDA
Buckley presses record as presidential race looms
Senator James Buckley seeks to emphasize his voting record in a presidential election year. He notes that national candidates dominate headlines and shape issues, forcing him to campaign early to reach voters before the presidential race absorbs attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckley
Mark Brown
Ottaway
Washington
James L. Buckley
R-C-N.y
Fishkill Jail Escapees Thought to Flee to NYC
State police hunted for two Greenhaven Correctional Facility inmates after a suspected weekend escape. Robert Bryant and Steven Martin, both Bronx residents serving 20 years to life for murder, may have left the area amid a San Juan Batista Day festival crowd. Police found no evidence they were armed and suggested a return to New York City.
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Stormville
Greenhaven
Robert Bryant
Bronx
Steven Martin
Robert Cleary
Fishkill
Cleary
New York City
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Local 177
Roger Phillips
Phillips
Mike Carey
Power Authority of
State of New York
PASNY
U.S. Railway Association
Congress
Northeast
High L. Carey
Daniel B. Walsh
Franklinville
United States
James Buckley
Louis Ingrassia
Sullivan County
Nyc
Martin
Bryant
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