CEOs Earn 354 Times More Than Average Worker CNNMoney ...Chief executives of the nation's largest companies earned an average of $12.3 million in total pay last year -- 354 times more than a typical American worker, according to the AFL-CIO...
Mortgage Relief Checks Go Out, Only to Bounce New York Times ...It is unclear how many of the 1.4 million homeowners who were mailed the first round of payments covered under the foreclosure settlement have had problems with their checks...
Europe faces threat of full-fledged depression Market Watch ...“Unemployment is at a record high, credit is going down, banks are failing…what do you call an economy like that?”...
Local unions offer $50,000 reward for tips Boston Globe ...A group of police and firefighter unions announced a $50,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting off two explosions at the Boston Marathon that took three lives and injured more than 170 people and have set up a fund for victims of the blast...
The Bank of America Lawsuits Continue Associated Press ...As soon as Bank of America puts one mortgage-related lawsuit behind it, another always seems to rear its head...
How Congress Undercuts the Postal Service (opinion) The Sacramento Bee ...The Postal Service gets no tax dollars, yet is constantly hammered as a money-wasting government agency. Every time it seeks to cut costs, Congress puts up roadblocks...
ALEC's best friend: The Indiana General Assembly Journal Gazette ...the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-controlled group that writes model legislation, has an omnibus bill named in honor of the Indiana legislature's dubious achievement, "The Indiana Education Reform Package."...
Brownback Signs Bill That Requires Welfare, Unemployment Recipients to be Tested for Drugs Kansas City Star ...Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs...
Florida Republicans Target Foreign-Language Voting The Miami Herald ...Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old North Miami voter who became a symbol of Florida’s elections woes, could again find it tough to cast a ballot now that the state Senate voted Tuesday to keep a crackdown on foreign-language interpreters at the polls...
State Auditor General Finds $35 Million in Unpaid Corporate Taxes The Daily Pennsylvanian ...Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Tuesday that he found errors on more than 1,250 corporate tax returns, totaling a net gain of $35.4 million for the state...
Nevada Ups the Ante on Delaware's Tax Status Deutsche Welle ...The US state of Delaware is an incorporation mecca where registering a company is as easy as 1-2-3. It draws not just the top firms, but also many shady shell companies. That has caught the attention of Nevada...
Hoffa Visits Tulsa, Hears AA Mechanics’ Challenges and Hopes IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa visited American Airlines mechanics and related workers in Tulsa last evening. Sitting in a room with a large group of mechanics, Hoffa heard from campaign leaders and learned about the specific problems mechanics and related are facing and their hope for strong Teamster representation at AA...
Workers At UPS Supply Chain Solutions Vote To Join Teamsters Local 769 IBT ...On April 16, employees at a UPS Supply Chain Solutions facility in Doral, Fla., voted to join Teamsters Local 769 in Miami...
Second Day of Garbage Strike in Northeast Ohio: Some Get Trash Collected on Time, Others See Delays The Plain Dealer ...Trash collection went as usual for some communities Tuesday, but others saw delays in the second day of the Teamsters strike against a private hauler serving many Northeast Ohio suburbs...
Pickets Target Gates-Owned Garbage Company Puget Sound Business Journal ...Allied Waste/Republic Services garbage truck drivers are picketing Wednesday in Seattle, Lynnwood, and Kent/SeaTac, protesting and supporting striking workers in Ohio...
Allied Waste/Republic Pickets Spread to Three Puget Sound Locations, Sanitation Workers Honor Lines IBT ...Garbage, recycle, and yard waste drivers, employed by Allied Waste/Republic Services, honored picket lines early this morning that were established by striking Local 377 Teamsters from Youngstown, Ohio. Picket lines were set up at the company’s facilities in Seattle, Lynnwood, and Kent/SeaTac...
Republic Services Garbage Workers Strike in McDonough Atlanta Journal-Constitution ...Forty drivers, helpers and mechanics at Republic Services, a waste management company, began a strike in McDonough on Monday, citing what they call unfair labor practices. Efforts to reach Republic for comment were unsuccessful...
Durham Bus Drivers: 'Make Durham Be Accountable' ABC News ...Nearly 75 Bus drivers with Durham School Services filed into a conference room at the North Charleston Coliseum to say enough is enough...
Teamsters Local 77 Member Helps Deliver Baby Fox Philly News ...With so much sadness in Boston, we wanted to bring you some joy, and tell you about the birth of a beautiful baby girl. She arrived not at a hospital, but right outside a toll booth along the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
"City Hall Don't Frieze Out New Yorkers" Elected Officials And Labor Leaders Call Upon City Hall To Change Parks Permitting Because Of Rogue Art Show IBT ...Leaders of the City’s top labor organizations stood with members of the City Council to confront the organizers of the Frieze New York Art Show on their lack of support for union workers and their families...
