Teamster News
Teamsters Take Their Case To City Of LA — And A Shipper Journal of Commerce ...Justice for Port Truckers, which is affiliated with the Teamsters, continued to picket the headquarters and truck yards of three companies they are attempting to organize — Green Fleet Systems, Pac-9 Transportation and Total Transportation Services...
Picketing Truckers Raise Tensions At LA Port Amid Dockworker Talks NPR ...Labor tensions are high at the largest port complex in the country — Los Angeles and Long Beach — which handles nearly half of all the cargo coming into the United States. Short-haul truck drivers are striking...
Chicago Company Counts the Minutes Workers Spend on the Toilet Lakeview Patch ...The workers, who build faucet stations that go into high schools, university labs and healthcare facilities, say they are allowed only 6 minutes per day for toilet breaks, according to Teamsters Local 743, and anyone who exceeds their allotted toilet time is reprimanded...
Teamsters Local 8 Announces Tentative Contract With Penn State teamster.org ...Penn State University employees have reached a tentative contract agreement with the university which will continue to give the 2,500 members of Teamsters Local 8 economic and job stability, the union announced today...
Trade
Steel Institute Pleased With Commerce Determination on OCTG Steel Works ... “Imports from these countries have surged in the past few years, and we are pleased that the Commerce Department has reversed its preliminary determination with respect to Korea and taken this critical step to find that imports from all nine investigated countries are benefitting from unfair trade practices. It is critical that the U.S. government continue to aggressively and strictly enforce our trade laws to ensure that relief is provided to steelmakers and the nearly one million workers directly or indirectly supported by the steel industry...
China’s Food Safety Issues Worse Than You Thought Food Safety News ...Shuanghui International, China’s biggest meat products company (which purchased Smithfield Foods last year for $4.7 billion), has been plagued by constant reports here in this country of meat infested with maggots, customers succumbing to food poisoning, and random testing that shows illegal levels of bacteria and illegal additives such as clenbuterol in their meat...
Protesters Cry Foul At Secrecy Around Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks PostMedia ...Protesters gathered outside the Delta Hotel in Ottawa Thursday morning where trade talks are underway among Trans-Pacific Partnership members. Protesters held signs that said, “secret deal being negotiated here” and “stop the TPP,” while the Raging Grannies, an Ottawa-based satirical singing group, performed outside the hotel...
TTIP Is An Affront To Democracy New Internationalist ...Prime minister David Cameron ... is busy pushing for a deal that will hand the sovereignty of his country, and others, to multinational companies...
State Battles
UAW, VW reach agreement Associated Press ...United Auto Workers leaders said Thursday they have reached a consensus with Volkswagen and expect the German automaker to recognize the union if they sign up enough workers at a new local for the company’s assembly plant in Tennessee...
Judge Rules G.O.P. Illegally Redrew Florida Districts New York Times ...In a sharply worded decision, a Florida judge ruled late Thursday that Republicans illegally redrew the state’s congressional districts, saying they “made a mockery” of an amendment meant to inject fairness into a process that has long been politically tainted...
North Carolina Will Determine the Future of the Voting Rights Act The Nation ...Now, as a result of North Carolina’s new voting restrictions—widely regarded as the most onerous in the country—the 93-year-old activist could be disenfranchised by the state’s voter ID requirement because the name on her driver’s license does not match the name on her voter registration card...
Former Scott Walker aide exceeds top of pay scale with new job Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...A former top aide to Gov. Scott Walker who was recently transferred into a new state job received $3,400 a year more than the top pay listed in an advertisement for the position, state records show...
War On Workers
Gallup Slams Lid On Hopes For US Economy Wolf Street ...Gallup found that “the increasing cost of essential items is further constraining family budgets already hit hard by the Great Recession and still reeling from a stagnant economy.” Hence, the less essential the expense, the more it got cut...
Worker dies after construction accident in Mesa AZFamily.com ...Mesa Fire Capt. Bob Tribbensee said some equipment fell on the worker, who was then treated by paramedics and transported to a hospital. The worker died at the hospital...
Worker killed in ceiling collapse at Haltom City building Fort Worth Star Telegram ...One worker was killed and two others were slightly injured Thursday morning when a ceiling collapsed inside a vacant building that was being remodeled, officials said...
Indiana Steelmaker Fined Over Worker’s Sinkhole Death Claims Journal ...he owner of a northwestern Indiana steel mill has agreed to pay a $7,000 fine over what state inspectors determined was a serious safety violation in a worker’s death...
New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes ICIJ ...Names range from vacuum cleaner tycoon James Dyson to Hollywood actor Mel Gibson. Today The Guardian identifies party donors who over the years have paid more than £8m to the governing Conservative party...
Shaving New York: Lyft receives cease-and-desist on eve of expansion Pando Daily ...Lyft’s expansion to New York has been delayed by a cease-and-desist letter from the city’s district attorney, who says the company has “thumbed its nose” at regulators who have warned it that its mustachioed ride service can’t operate in the city...
Why Small Biz Owners Back A Higher Minimum Wage CBS News ...Sixty-one percent of small-business owners with employees say they support increasing the baseline wage in three stages over two-and-a-half years and adjusting it after that to keep pace with increases in the cost of living. That's a finding in a new study from the American Sustainable Business Council and Business for a Fair Minimum Wage...
Miscellaneous
Amazon Marches Forward On Drones, Asks FAA For Permission To Test Prime Air Salon.com ... The company officially requested permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to test its drones outside in the Seattle area...
10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People Mother Jones ...A line of Supreme Court rulings stretching back 200 years has blurred the distinction between flesh-and-blood citizens and the businesses they own...
