Teamster News
Carpenters, Teamsters Join Forces To Protest At PA Convention Center Philadelphia Business Journal ...After being shut out of work for not signing a new customer satisfaction agreement, the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 107 will join forces Wednesday morning to protest their joint lockout...
Workers At AGY In Aiken Remain Idle After Seven Weeks Of Unemployment Augusta Chronicle ...More than 500 employees at AGY glass fiber manufacturing in Aiken are entering their seventh week without jobs after contract negotiations between the company and their union proved fruitless this spring...
Trade
Report: Chinese Smartphone Comes Preloaded With Spyware Trade Reform ...G Data Software said it found malicious code hidden deep in the propriety software of the Star N9500 when it ordered the handset from a website late last month. The find is the latest in a series of incidents where smartphones have appeared preloaded with malicious software...
State Battles
Since 2010, New Laws in 22 States Restrict Right to Vote AFL-CIO ...Since Republicans gained control of many state legislatures in the 2010 elections, 22 states(see map above)—nearly all of them in the South and the Midwest—have rolled out new restrictions on the right to vote...
Unions Taking Fight To The People Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...Union members fighting the end of collective bargaining for many city employees are holding a picnic Saturday and you’re invited...
War On Workers
Hospital Uses Executive Bonus Money To Give Its Workers A Raise Think Progress ...Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas will raise its own minimum wage to $10.25 an hour next month, paying for the increase with money originally devoted to executive bonuses...
Senators question closing of Social Security field offices Tallahassee Democrat ...In addition to shuttering field offices, the agency has cut thousands of field workers, eliminated hundreds of mobile stations, and reduced hours and services at hundreds of satellite offices over the past four years...
Income Gap Widens As American Factories Shut Down Associated Press ...In Reading and other American factory towns, manufacturing's decline is a key factor in the widening income gap between the rich and everyone else, as people like the Ludwigs have been forced into far lower-paying work...
Obesity Linked to Long-Term Unemployment in U.S. Gallup ...High blood pressure, cholesterol also more common among long-term unemployed...
Citigroup’s Dark Pools: Here’s Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Wall Street Wall Street on Parade ...while stock markets are setting new highs, stock ownership among U.S. adults is at a 16-year low, trending down from 65 percent participation in 2007 to a reading of 52 percent today, according to a Gallup poll released in May...
Wal-Mart's "Sham Transaction": How Giant Corporations Are Quietly Dodging U.S. Taxes Salon.com ...even when they’re not technically breaking the law, major corporations like Apple, Wal-Mart, Starbucks and more are systematically flouting its spirit and keeping profits they earned as part of the American community all to themselves...
Silicon Valley's Minimum Wage Success Story Al-Jazeera ...the San Jose City Council passed the living wage ordinance, raising the minimum hourly wage on projects that received public support to $9.50 with benefits and $10.75 without, at a time when the federal minimum wage was only $5.15 an hour. ... business over the next three years continued growing at a breakneck pace...
Miscellaneous
How To Tell If Your Member Of Congress Is A Crony Capitalist Huffington Post ...To win in 2012, U.S. senators had to raise an average of $14,351 a day, every single day of the week....
Obama: US must ‘strengthen unions’ The Hill ..."Weekends and overtime and benefits — things that now, non-union workers take for granted — well, you got those because unions were out there fighting for you for a very long time," Obama said...
