Teamster News
Fired McKesson Worker Loses Fight On CEO's Exit Package Bloomberg News ...Hammergren stands to receive $292 million under a so-called change in control at the San Francisco-based company, which distributes pharmaceuticals and medical products. The Teamsters union put a measure before shareholders at McKesson’s annual meeting today that would have urged the board to reduce that amount...
Teamsters Endorse Tom Wolf For Governor teamster.org ...Democratic candidate for governor, Tom Wolf joined representatives from the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters and the Carpenters Union today to accept their endorsements in his gubernatorial race against incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett...
Teamsters Praise Obama Crackdown On Companies That Abuse Workers teamster.org ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters strongly supports President Obama’s executive order to crack down on corporations that break laws but still win government contracts...
Trade
EU Ombudsman Demands More TTIP Transparency EurActiv ...The European Ombudsman today (31 July) opened two investigations into the EU Council and Commission over a lack of transparency around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)...
Russia might ban US chickens, Greek fruit The Hill ...The agency’s head, Sergey Dankvert, told ITAR-TASS that his team discovered listeria, salmonella, lead and anaerobic microorganisms in U.S. poultry. Dankvert said he will discuss the issue with U.S. officials early next week and possibly impose a ban...
WTO Fails to Ratify Trade Agreement Wall Street Journal ...The WTO reached an agreement in December on the Indonesian resort island of Bali to streamline customs procedures. The deadline to ratify that agreement was Thursday, but India declined to do so without a parallel agreement allowing developing countries more freedom to subsidize and stockpile food...
State Battles
Eric Holder Takes Voting Rights Battle To Ohio, Wisconsin Wall Street Journal ...In Wisconsin, the Justice Department filed a brief supporting a previous federal court ruling against the state's photo identification requirement, which was deemed unfair to minority voters. In Ohio, the Justice Department weighed in against a law limiting early voting and same day registration...
The Next Big Fight in Income Inequality Is About to Go Down in California The New Republic ...Over time they want to create a regional living wage across eight counties, lifting the fortunes of the working poor...
Outsourcing Jobs...To Low-Wage Wisconsin Cap Times ...What the announcement shows, of course, is how corporations are constantly looking to increase profits by lowering labor costs as much as possible. That can mean outsourcing manufacturing jobs to Asia or, in the case of Alta, providing outsourcing services in Wisconsin...
In 5-2 ruling, Supreme Court issues final word on Act 10 Wall Street Journal ...More than three years after its passage sparked massive protests that jammed the Capitol Square, the state Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a divisive state law that sharply curtailed the collective bargaining rights of most public workers...
Asheville To Host 2nd Mountain Moral Monday On Aug. 4 Citizen-Times ...For the past 64 weeks, Barber has led the civil disobedience campaign called Moral Mondays, criticizing policies enacted by the Republican-led legislature on everything from education funding to fracking to voter ID laws...
War On Workers
Protesters 'Rally Against the Banks' in Punta Gorda WINK News ..."There's a lot of folks in foreclosure that need some relief," said Bradley Burdette, who organized the "Rally Against the Banks" protest...
Road Crew Worker Hit And Killed On Interstate 89 WCAX ...A man working on Interstate 89 as part of a road crew has been hit and killed by a car...
Let's Call 'Corporate Inversion' For What It Is: A Gaping, Unpatriotic Tax Loophole (opinion) Huffington Post ...In 2004, Congress enacted a law to prevent "corporate inversions" in which corporations reincorporate in a foreign country to avoid paying U.S. taxes, but a gaping loophole allows corporations to get around this law by merging with a foreign company. Simply put, it allows corporations to avoid paying taxes when they "renounce their U.S. citizenship" and change their corporate address to a foreign country...
Miscellaneous
Cabbies Show Up At Houston City Hall In Opposition Of Uber And Lyft KTRK ...The taxi cab drivers told Eyewitness News their demand is simple. They want everyone to play by the same rules...
Senate sends highway bill to Obama The Hill ...After the House rejected Senate changes, senators held their noses Thursday and voted 81-13 for a $10.9 billion bill to fund highway projects through May 2015...
CIA director John Brennan apologizes for search of Senate committee’s computers Washington Post ...CIA employees improperly searched computers used by Senate investigators involved in a multi-year probe of the agency’s use of harsh interrogation measures on terrorism suspects, according to the findings of an internal agency inquiry that prompted CIA Director John Brennan to apologize to lawmakers this week...
