Obama Budget Reviving Offer of Compromise With Cuts New York Times ...President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his annual budget in an effort to demonstrate his willingness to compromise with Republicans and revive prospects for a long-term deficit-reduction deal...
Seattle Times columnist: "Uncle Sam wearing a 'kick me' sign." manufacture this ..."The decline of American manufacturing was not an act of God or even a result of that murky word “globalization.” It has followed bad trade deals and Uncle Sam wearing a “kick me” sign while nations from China to Japan and Germany protected their manufacturing sectors..."
Banks are not complying with mortgage settlement, survey finds Los Angeles Times ...Banks aren't living up to pledges they made in last year's landmark government settlement of mortgage servicing and foreclosure abuses, according to an advocacy group's survey of California housing counselors and lawyers...
Efforts to Deliver 'Kill Shot' to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC Huffington Post ...Corporate-backed bills have passed at the state level in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and Mississippi that would preempt (or as one GOP operative put it, "deliver the kill shot" to) local paid sick leave laws. Similar bills are on the legislative docket in Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Washington...
Judicial Amendments And The Attack On Worker Rights Truthout ...Labor activists regularly bemoan the weak state of the NLRA - the National Labor Relations Act. Many of them think that Congress enacted the NLRA with remedies and rights that, from the beginning, were too weak to protect employees who tried to organize unions and bargain collectively. However, that is not the case...
State to Pay Millions in Denied Jobless Benefits Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...Georgia will pay more than $8 million in unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 seasonally jobless workers who were denied payments last year by the commissioner of labor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned...
Judge chides Republican legislators for right-to-work laws Detroit Free Press ...Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette took a verbal shot Wednesday at the Legislature over Michigan's new right-to-work laws, saying he was "amazed" legislators would create laws "to avoid me..."
Detroit union contracts will be honored under emergency manager Detroit Free Press ...Bing's labor relations director, Lamont Satchel, told the Free Press that earlier reports saying Detroit would no longer honor labor contracts with police and fire unions were incorrect...
The Outskirts of Hope: How Ohio’s Debtors’ Prisons Are Ruining Lives and Costing Communities ACLU ...The stark reality is that, in 2013, Ohioans are being repeatedly jailed
simply for being too poor to pay fines...
N.H. Drops Effort to Privatize Prisons Concord Monitor ...The state announced yesterday that it has dropped its bid to privatize the state’s prisons because none of the four companies that wanted the job showed they could meet court-ordered requirements for inmate care. The private prison companies also proposed wages and benefits that are half what security staff at the prisons earn now...
Fact Check Shows Self Serving Scott Walker Editorial Ignores Reality Green Bay Progressive ...Presidential candidate Scott Walker published a self-serving editorial today about his budget in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that was constituted of evasions, misrepresentations and outright fibs...
Teamsters At Republic Services/Allied Waste Extend Picket Lines To California IBT ...Workers on strike at Republic Services/Allied Waste extended picket lines to five Northern California locations today, on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis supporting striking waste workers...
BLET Official Gives Rail Perspective On Sequester IBT ...John Tolman, BLET Vice President and National Legislative Representative, spoke recently with America’s Workforce Radio about the effects of the sequester on rail employees...
Cincinnati Coca Cola Workers Join Teamsters IBT ...Employees of Coca Cola in the greater Cincinnati area working in the Vending Service Department recently
joined Teamsters Local 1199...
