Teamster News
Descendants Of 1934's Teamster Strike Carry Proud Legacy Twin Cities Daily Planet ...The 10 or so people gathering in a 1920's home in St. Paul might have been meeting for the first time, but they forged an instant bond. Their parents or grandparents 80 years ago stood together and fought in the streets of Minneapolis for the right to organize a union during 1934's Teamsters strikes...
MetraPark Workers Will See Pay Raise Under New Contract Billings Gazette ...The Teamsters Local 190 and Yellowstone County have settled negotiations for MetraPark workers in a deal that calls for a five-year contract...
Union Representing JCPS Bus Drivers Puts Up Billboard WHAS ...When you drive down the Watterson Expressway you'll soon see something different. A new billboard is going up in an effort to protect Jefferson County Public School bus drivers...
Trade
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up In April Trade Reform ...Imagine American factories and other businesses receiving an additional $44.2 billion in orders last month, and every single month, and you can visualize the effect of this trade deficit. How many people would be hired due to an additional $44.2 billion in orders? How many suppliers would get a boost in orders? How many local businesses surrounding these thriving factories would be getting extra business?...
Statistics that Spin: Foreign Goods to Be Considered U.S. Goods? Economic Policy Institute ...the proposal, if adopted, would create a statistical fiction that companies that are American in name only, which outsource 100 percent of their production, assembly and services to other countries like China, will be deemed to be manufacturers...
USDA Approves Checkoff Advertisements Featuring “North American Beef” Trade Reform ...
“USDA is sanctioning consumer deception by approving government-mandated advertisements that mislead consumers into believing that their Wendy’s burger may have originated in El Salvador or Panama...
State Battles
Virginia DMV orders Lyft, Uber to stop operating PilotOnLine.com ...The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles sent cease-and-desist orders Thursday to Lyft and Uber, telling the two taxi-like services they must stop operating in violation of state law or face fines against their drivers...
War On Workers
Wal-Mart: ‘Headed Toward a Dark Place’ Barron's ...Shares of Wal-Mart have gained just 2.7% during the past 12 months, lagging the S&P 500′s 20% rise during the same period...
Walmart Plans Family Succession As Low-Wage Worker Plea Voted Down At Meeting Forbes ...something is wrong when the richest family in America pays hundreds of thousands of associates so little they cannot survive without relying on food stamps, on public health insurance, and on the charity of co-workers...
One Percent's Twisted New Heist Salon.com ...A new study from In the Public Interest, a think tank focused on how privatization, (shows) the routine practice of outsourcing government functions is another important reason why the middle class is shrinking as those at the very top reap more and more of the fruits of our economy...
Farm Workers' Low Wages Hinder San Joaquin Valley's Economy NPR ...If you look at the jobs picture across the U.S., one place stands out for high levels of unemployment: Central California's San Joaquin Valley. It's been called the Appalachia of the West...
Economy Added 217,000 Jobs In May; Unemployment Unchanged At 6.3 Percent Think Progress ...The economy added 217,000 jobs in May while the unemployment rate remained at 6.3 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Jobs Report Won't Juice Unemployment Situation Huffington Post ...Gersley Kendricks figures Congress has given up on him. Kendricks, 63, has been unemployed since early last year and without an income since Congress declined to renew long-term unemployment insurance at the end of December. He's one of nearly 3 million people who have missed out on compensation since then...
Taxes: Who Pays How Much In Eight Charts Moyers and Company ...Ideological arguments about whether taxes are too high or low miss the crucial question of who ends up bearing how much of the burden of financing our public sector...
What America Could Buy With Offshore Tax Money Moyers and Company ...The federal government forgoes billions of dollars in revenue each year due to corporate tax write-offs and loopholes enshrined in America's tax code...
