NYC labor parade mixed with reflections of Sept. 11 Associated Press ...About 800 members of Teamsters Local 282 — 44-year-old Vigilante is a member — drove trucks that hauled debris from the site...
Auction House Opens Its Fall Season With Chinese Art, Teamster Protests Local 814 ...Teamster members and supporters protested outside Sotheby's Manhattan showroom today as the company (NYSE: BID) opened its fall auction season with its annual media preview of Chinese paintings and ceramics to be auctioned next week...
Where are the jobs, Governor? (No, literally, where?) Plunderbund ...Today, a crowd of roughly 400, mostly labor members, protested outside of Governor Kasich’s office building... people have been fleeing Ohio’s labor market since May...
Michigan governor ready to launch fall agenda Bloomberg ...The fall session also could bring potentially divisive topics such as right-to-work laws...Snyder has said such legislation is not part of his agenda, and it's unclear how many Republican lawmakers would support the bills...
Nixon won’t endorse cutting credit Columbia Daily Tribune ...Gov. Jay Nixon declined yesterday to endorse plans to end a tax credit used by 100,000 elderly and disabled Missourians to support an air freight hub in St. Louis, the key trade-off in a package of tax breaks for businesses pending in the General Assembly...
Mica Punts On Anti-Union FAA Issue, Unions Celebrate Talking Points Memo ...Unions were breathing a sigh of relief Friday morning after House Republicans punted a contentious anti-union issue preventing funding for the Federal Aviation Administration to the end of December, providing back pay to agency workers and giving opponents more time to organize and fight GOP-backed anti-labor provisions...
