Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Today's Teamster News 03.15.11

'Right-to-work' bill stalls in Missouri Senate  St. Louis Post-Dispatch   ...after debating the bill for about three hours, with packed galleries of pro-union spectators looking on, the Senate shelved it without a vote. Whether it will ever reach a vote was unclear...
Next up for Wisconsin: the mother of all recall drives  Christian Science Monitor   ...“In Wisconsin, nothing like this has ever happened; in terms of the US, nothing comes close to such a wholesale effort,”...
Wisconsin union fight could influence state Supreme Court race  Associated Press   ...The April 5 Supreme Court election is three weeks away, thrusting the conservative-leaning Prosser squarely into the sights of angry Democrats and union supporters...
Wisconsin keeps the protest fever alive  PressTV   ...Protesters greeted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as he arrived at a restaurant in Brown County, Wisconsin for a dinner with local Republican leaders...
Unions to Rally Against Senate Bill 5 Tuesday  Strongsville Patch   ...The rally will be one of 12 held throughout Ohio, including one in Akron...
Kasich Policy Director: Our budget tomorrow has virtually nothing to do with the projected budget deficit  Plunderbund   ... “Even if there weren’t an $8 billion deficit, we’d probably be proposing many of the same things.”...
Republican, Democratic leaders of Indiana House talk more, but don't resolve boycott  Associated Press   ... Democrats still had unresolved concerns about a bill on government construction project wages...
LePage exempts own pension from budget cutbacks  Kennebec Journal   ...Under (Maine) Gov. Paul LePage's proposed budget, teachers and other state employees will be required to increase their contributions to the pension system, from 7.65 percent of their salary to 9.65 percent...
Teamsters From Around D.C. Metro Region Rally for Justice at Giant Food  IBT   ...Supermarket Chain to Outsource Hundreds of Jobs Out of State...