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The article focuses on Salvatore Battaglia, the former president of the local of the Amalgamated Transit Union which represents New York City's school bus drivers. Battaglia is awaiting sentencing on U.S. racketeering charges. The school bus business in the city has long been linked to organized crime. Battaglia is presented as a petty criminal unqualified to direct large-scale criminal operations.

The article reports on the claim of New York-based labor union Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100 that bus drivers are being treated like criminals with a law that penalizes them for failing to yield after strucking a pedestrian with the right of way. It discusses the law which is part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reduce traffic deaths. The union reportedly believes that the law is uncalled for and should not include bus drivers.

The article reports on the inability of 300 Black and Latino school children from Bed-Stuy P.S. 56 Lewis H. Latimer School to go to their apple picking trip in New York. It reveals that the halt of the children's trip was brought by the decision of one driver of the seven buses to bring his wife and child with him for the trip. The Department of Education (DOE) stresses that such move is a violation of its policies.

The article presents information related to the strike of Access-A-Ride bus drivers and mechanics in New York City. On December 10, 2007, 1,500 Access-A-Ride bus drivers and mechanics went out on strike. It is stated that unlike the transit strike of two years ago, this situation was quite complicated, as evidenced by a press conference convened on December 9, 2007, where drivers joined supporters and elected officials in a last-ditch effort to avert a strike.

This article reports on the recent vote of New York City's transit workers turning down an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. After the strike in December, city officials were hopeful that the agreement would be accepted, but apparently workers were upset with the changes made to pensions and medical insurance payments. Younger workers, who were most affected by the pension issue, felt as though they were not receiving any increases. INSET: Rejected Union Contracts.

The article discusses the difficulties in starting up the New York City transit system after the strike ended. The strike ended at 2:30 P.M. but it would take too much time to restart to avoid one more terrible evening rush. A spokesman for New York City Transit said that the service should be back to normal by the next day. Most strikers were already at their job sites carrying picket signs when the strike ended, so it was easy for them to begin working.

This article discusses the way an agreement was reached by Roger Toussaint and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to end the New York City transit strike and restart negotiations. Toussaint had been talking to advisers about the fines and public scorn that the union was incurring. After a phone conference with 40 union leaders, Toussaint's intermediaries convinced Bloomberg to consider an offer by Toussaint to relax his union's demands involving pensions and to bargain over payments for health benefits. Bloomberg agreed and the strike ended with hope that new negotiations would be successful.

The article discusses how race has become an issue in the New York City transit strike. Strike leaders and organizers Roger Toussaint and Leroy Bright have accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others of using racial coding in their choice of words. Bloomberg described union actions as being done thuggishly. Some believe the word thug is attributed to people of color. Seventy percent of the transit workers are black, Latino, or Asian-American.

The article looks at the effects of the transit strike on New York City businesses, workers, and others. More than half of the city's children were missing school. Some businesses closed because they had so few customers. Hairdressers in one salon estimated they were losing $3,000 worth of business in a week. Visiting nurses were afraid they wouldn't be able to see patients and warned hospitals that they might have to keep patients longer than usual.

This article discusses the increasing pressure on Roger Toussaint and the New York City's striking transit workers to end the strike and make a settlement with the city. The strike is illegal and a state court has threatened a $1 million per day fine along with jail time for union leaders. Strikers could also lose two days' pay for each day out. Newspapers, the mayor, and governor are denouncing the union as greedy and showing contempt for the law. The union has had less than enthusiastic support from other unions and is trying to use racism as a way out of this dilemna.

The article reports on New York City's first citywide transit strike in a quarter-century. Millions of subway and bus commuters walked, bicycled and car-pooled after the Transport Workers Union announced a general strike. Others took private buses or taxis. As people competed for ways to get to work, and businesses struggled in one of the year's most important retail weeks, the conflict between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its largest union shifted into the courts. Initial decisions went against the union, as a Brooklyn Supreme Court justice called the strike illegal and fined the union.

Reports on the gathering of 300 retired New York City bus workers in North Carolina. Statement that the reunions were started by retired bus drivers James S. Bowles and Sidney Bronson; Report that many retired New York transit workers move to the South; Statement that almost all of the reunion attendees worked for the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority; Experience of the mostly black bus drivers during the civil rights era.

The article reports that some 70,000 Queens and Brooklyn bus riders scrambled to find alternative means of transportation when several hundred drivers and mechanics with Green Bus Lines of Queens, and Command Bus Company of Brooklyn, New York went on strike. The companies are two of the seven private bus lines the company has contracted with to provide transportation to commuters. On January 10 workers walked off the job after citing a litany of issues, including working for more than two years without a contract.

The article reports that strike of school bus drivers across New York City are still on strike and the talks with the city are moving at a slow pace.

The article focuses on the decision of the State Supreme Court in Bronx, New York City regarding the accident made by the bus driver Ophadell Williams. It mentions that there were 15 passengers out of 32 that died because of the crash, wherein the other passengers were injured. Furthermore, it says that the court's decision is not guilty, because there were no evidence found drunken driving and distracted driving due to cellphones.

The article focuses on the verdict in the manslaughter trial involving Ophadell Williams, a bus driver who was accused of being deprived of sleep and caused a crash that killed 15 passengers in 2011. Judge Troy K. Webber has decided that the verdict will not be revealed until December 7, 2012 morning because there will be insufficient time to address the 54 charges against Williams. District attorney Gary Weil adds that he understand the decision although he never encountered such as situation.

The article reports on the passenger bus which killed a six-year-old boy in an attempt to avoid a pedestrian, slamming into a private home in Nassau County, New York City on November 27, 2012. It states that the bus was traveling on Fulton Avenue when the driver swerved to avoid the unidentified pedestrian. Lieutenant Frank McNamee of the Hempstead Police said about 15 passenger had minor injuries.

The article reports on the deliberation of the manslaughter case of Chinatown bus driver Ophadell Williams by a jury at State Supreme Court in Bronx, New York on November 27, 2012. It says that the World Wide Travel bus driven by William crashed at the Interstate 95 on March 12, 2012, killing 15 passengers. Moreover, William faces a maximum of up to 15 years of imprisonment and at most $250,000 in fines after being charged with criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter.

DEAR BELT PARKWAY (a Brooklyn tale of woe, with a soupcon of Staten Island thrown in for good measure): I despise you, Belt Parkway. You are just miles and miles of miserable tie-ups, never-ending construction and gut-wrenching ''signs'' (both literal and figurative) that are, to put it mildly, less than truthful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New York State suspended the driving privileges of the driver of the casino bus that crashed in the Bronx last weekend, killing 15 passengers, after investigators learned that he had made ''false statements'' on his driver's license applications, a state official said Thursday. The information that the driver, Ophadell Williams, provided to the Department of Motor Vehicles included ''false statements about the status of his license,'' said the official, Howard Glaser, the director of state operations for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. He added that investigators would try to determine if those statements were made ''to conceal the fact that he had been using multiple names and had a suspension under one of those names.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The train crawled to a stop. Ahead, somewhere in a tunnel below 96th Street on the West Side of Manhattan, a 20-foot section of rail had broken. It was a good moment -- actually, a good half-hour -- to review the headlines. City bus drivers were taking off three months to recover from being spit upon, all the city newspapers reported on Tuesday. The information was released by transit officials, who said that 51 drivers assaulted by spitters in 2009 had taken, on average, 64 days off with pay. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It could be the cutbacks to the city's transportation system, or a general decline in urban civility. Perhaps people are just in a collective bad mood. What else could explain why New Yorkers -- notoriously hardened to the slings and arrows of everyday life here -- are spitting on bus drivers? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lay off hundreds of bus drivers and subway workers by July 4, as the agency prepares to carry out severe service cuts to the city's mass transit system. More than 550 bus workers will be laid off by New York City Transit on June 27, coinciding with the elimination of dozens of bus lines and two subway routes, according to documents filed with the state on Tuesday. An additional 122 subway workers, mostly car inspectors, will lose their jobs on July 4, the agency said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal authorities arrested a 24-year-old Denver shuttle bus driver and his father on Saturday night, charging them both with making false statements to the government in an ongoing federal terrorism investigation stretching from New York to Colorado to overseas, government officials said. The driver, Najibullah Zazi, and his father, Mohammed Zazi, 53, were taken into custody by federal authorities in Denver, government officials said. In addition, at least one other man was expected to be arrested in New York as officials prepared charges against all three men, the officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For years, two brothers, former officials of a school bus drivers' union that was under the sway of organized crime figures, pressured bus companies that had contracts with the city to give them illegal payments, according to federal authorities who announced the men's indictments on extortion and conspiracy charges on Wednesday. The indictments, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accuse the former officials, Paul and Nick Maddalone, of extorting the bus company owners, all of whom held contracts with the city's Department of Education. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One famous aria after another: the operatic hit parade began as the bus pulled away from the depot, empty. ''La donna e mobile'' from Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' was followed, somewhere on the West Side Highway, by ''Nessun dorma'' from Puccini's ''Turandot.'' The A's and that high B at the end were thrilling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For years, the labor union representing most New York City school bus drivers and escorts did more to benefit organized crime than it did for all but a handful of its most connected members, who were usually picked to lead the union by the Genovese crime family, according to federal prosecutors. On Monday, a new era may begin for the union, Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, as its roughly 15,000 members prepare to vote by secret ballot in what members said would be the first election free of mob influence in at least 30 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two men were killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Jamaica, Queens, on Sunday afternoon, the police said. Officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said one of the men killed was an off-duty city bus driver. The third man, who the police said was 17, was shot in the leg and taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was expected to recover, hospital officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]