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DETROIT — Entering contract talks with Detroit's three automakers, Shawn Fain set lofty expectations for what he could gain for his union members — and delivered on many of them.

It’s a dead heat when it comes to Long Islanders’ opinions on the idea of building a casino at the Nassau Coliseum, according to a new Newsday/Siena College poll.

The first offshore wind turbine in federal waters was installed off New England last week, as LIPA and New York State launch a decadeslong transition from fossil-fuel power plants to new green energy.

NEW YORK — Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company’s stores.

The website, OSWLongIsland.org, is sponsored by Vineyard Offshore, a developer of offshore wind sites in the Northeast, and is designed to be a first step in an online and in-school career guidance program.

The contract had the support of 55 percent of the nearly 36,000 members voting, though majorities at several large G.M. factories voted against the agreement. A spokesman for the union confirmed the accuracy of the tally but declined to comment further.