Centerplate and Teamsters Reach Agreement for Employees at AT&T Park, Other SF Venues: New Pressure on Local 2 UNITE HERE to Bargain in Good Faith San Francisco Sentinel ...Centerplate, one of the largest hospitality and concession companies in North America, and San Francisco’s Teamsters Local 853 recently announced the ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for 200 retail and food service employees working at AT&T Park, Candlestick, and the Cow Palace...
Who’s dependent on food stamps? Cheapskate corporations MSNBC ... A majority of food-stamp families with an able-bodied adult do work, and more than 60% of such families work when they have children. They just don’t get paid enough to feed their families...
Denny’s restaurants settles foreign workers’ suit for $1.4 million The Star ...A group of temporary workers from the Philippines who worked as cooks and servers at Denny’s restaurants in B.C. have won a settlement worth $1.425 million that is the first of its kind in Canada...
Americans favor action on China's cheating, including "currency manipulation." manufacture this ...64% of voters think China's currency manipulation has "cost American jobs..."
Legal battle brews over Detroit bankruptcy USA Today ...Friday's legal wrangling marks the beginning of what is expected to be a lengthy bankruptcy process that will involve more than 100,000 creditors, which include the Police and Fire Retirement System and the General Retirement System and its 20,000 retirees...
Big Media’s push for extreme new Internet censorship rules stalls secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks straight.com ...Big Media lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats are holding closed-door meetings in Malaysia this week, as they continue secret talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Amid Greek austerity, plunder of priceless treasures BBC News ...The financial crisis in Greece has already had far-reaching consequences for many people, but now it is claiming a new casualty as some of the country's ancient treasures become a target for thieves...
Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection New York Times ...As Detroit files for bankruptcy — the largest American city ever to do so — the impressive collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts has become a political bargaining chip in a fight that could drag on for years between the city and its army of creditors, who have said in no uncertain terms that the artworks must be considered a salable asset...
G-20 backs new tax rules for big firms CNN Money ...For the first time in decades, the world's biggest powers look ready to close loopholes that big companies exploit to pay little or no tax...
The Latest Census of Global Fortunes: Mo' Money for the 1% Alternet ...The surveys of wealth-management groups show that the super-rich are gobbling up an ever greater share of the world’s bounty...
New Oxfam Poll: Most Americans Believe We Should Help Working Poor Huffington Post ...America's poverty rate is now at its highest level in two generations, and many Americans are in jobs that do not pay a living wage. 100 million of us have a hard time putting food on the table, and almost half of America's children live in poverty or near poverty...
