Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Today's Teamster News 12.01.10

Evanston Council Approves Levy Increase to Fund Pensions  Teamsters Local 700   ...Evanston aldermen ... unanimously approv(ed) a 3 percent increase in the property tax levy to aid funding to the city's police and fire pension obligations...Local 700 represents about 150 Evanston police officers...
Jefferson County government wins concessions from union to help balance budget; talks with Teamsters continue  Peninsula Daily News   ...UFCW membership voted to defer raises for a year...
Teamsters Canada-represented engineers ratify CN contract  Progressive Railroading   ...the contract provides wage increases and improves benefits...
Union member earns highest Scouting honor  The Times Leader   ...James Rogers (member of local 401 and employee of YRC) is the recipient of the annual George Meany Scouting Award...
UPS to hire 50,000 for holiday work  New Mexico Business Weekly   ...From Thanksgiving to Christmas, UPS expects to deliver about 430 million packages around the world...
Small-cap Stock Alert – YRC Worldwide on the Road Again  Beacon Equity Research   ...the prospects for the trucking industry are looking good...
Tempers Flare At Kentucky Unemployment Office As Benefits Expire For Thousands  Huffington Post  ...and Indiana has armed guards at its 36 field offices...
Glow From Solar Factories Fails to Match Town's Hopes  Wall Street Journal   ...Built on technologies that are new and evolving, green industries spawn lots of start-ups, but they can shrivel just as quickly. Other countries are also pushing—and subsidizing—these same industries, making it hard for them to take root and expand in costlier locales like the U.S...
Manufacturing's Sparkle Fails to Radiate  Wall Street Journal   ...Manufacturing alone can't solve U.S. economic problems...
G.M. to Hire 1,000 to Engineer More Electric Cars  New York Times   ...The new jobs, in engineering and research, are the latest commitment by G.M. to broaden its lineup of energy-efficient models as well as to invest in its home state...
Midwest Emerges as Center for Clean Energy  New York Times   ...The upper Midwest has a history of advanced manufacturing, and machined parts and many of the basic materials of photovoltaic panels — polycrystalline in central Michigan, glass in the Toledo region, plastic films in Ohio — were already being made in the region...