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• But unions are also pressing for new measures that might help boost their sagging membership rolls. New investment in infrastructure would bring construction jobs for trade unions. Immigration reform -- and a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented Latino immigrants -- would create a vast new pool of potential union members. And new regulations could remove some obstacles to union organizing.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- You might be surprised at what has become a lauded and effective relief organization for victims of Superstorm Sandy: Occupy Wall Street.
• The social media savvy that helped Occupy protesters create a grass-roots global movement last year -- one that ultimately collapsed under its leaderless format -- is proving a strength as members fan out across New York to deliver aid including hot meals, medicine and blankets.
• They're the ones who took food and water to Glenn Nisall, a 53-year-old resident of Queens' hard-hit and isolated Rockaway section who lost power and lives alone, with no family nearby.
• "I said: 'Occupy? You mean Occupy Wall Street?'" he said. "I said: 'Awesome, man. I'm one of the 99 percent, you know?'"
• Occupy Wall Street was born in late 2011 in a lower Manhattan plaza called Zuccotti Park, with a handful of protesters pitching tents and vowing to stay put until world leaders offered a fair share to the "99 percent" who don't control the globe's wealth.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- A return to 1970s-era gas rationing seemed to help with hourslong gas station lines that formed after Superstorm Sandy, but it didn't end a fuel-gauge fixation that suddenly has become a way of life for drivers in the nation's largest city.
• With police monitoring lines, motorists in New York City and Long Island on Friday began dealing with a new piece of fallout from the monster storm: odd-even gas rationing.
• "Even? Odd? Whatever it is, I didn't have the right one," said Joe Standart, a 62-

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