Teamster News
Democratic Party, Teamsters Challenge Yost's Suggestions Youngstown Vindicator ...On Wednesday, the Ohio Democratic Party and Teamsters Local 377 blasted the audit’s recommendations for $384,000 in annual concessions in the Teamsters local’s labor contract. That local represents 51 of the engineer’s office employees...
Any Problems With Garbage Deal Will Belong To City (opinion) Contra Costa Times ...Our members will be fine working for either company. We've had our share of problems with both of them, just as we've helped make both a success...
Trade
EU-Canada Trade Deal Leak ‘Ridicules’ TTIP Consultation EurActiv ...The leaked text of an EU-Canada free trade deal confirms fears that multinationals may sue EU states in special tribunals for enacting laws that upset their profit forecasts, and makes a mockery of public consultation on a free trade deal with the US, campaigners say...
Wisconsin Farmers Union President Cautions Against Free Trade’s False Promises Bloomer News ...Behind the rosy projections about the benefits of free trade, history presents us with the cold hard facts. The 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been devastating for farmers in the U.S., and we are headed down the same path with the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) proposals...
State Battles
Wisconsin Employment under Walker Econbrowser ...Since January 2011, Wisconsin private nonfarm payroll employment growth has been a cumulative 2.8% lower than that for the United States as a whole...
Powerful D.C. Lobbies Join Fight Against Seattle Minimum Wage Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...Two of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, D.C. — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurant Association — have joined in a lawsuit against Seattle’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage ordinance...
Labor sharks sink teeth into low-wage immigrant workers AlJazeera America ...In New York, employment agencies face few penalties for charging advance fees for jobs that don’€™t exist...
War On Workers
Wal-Mart’s Sales Stagnation Reignites Concern About Economy Bloomberg ...Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)’s latest struggles to revive U.S. sales, following a disappointing Commerce Department report earlier this week, add to evidence that the economy isn’t recovering as quickly as expected...
Fed: Typical American family doesn't have $400 on hand WWL ...The Federal Reserve survey shows a typical American household cannot raise $400 without borrowing money or selling possessions...
Europe’s Greater Depression is worse than the 1930s Washington Post ...it's been six-and-a-half years, and eurozone GDP is still 1.9 percent lower than it was before the Great Recession began. It "only" took the U.S. economy seven years to get back to where it'd been before the Great Depression hit...
Among Workers At Revel There's Shock, Anxiety, Uncertainty, And Even Some Optimism Philadelphia Inquirer ...The 3,200 workers who have made Revel home the last 28 months are hoping against hope that the casino snags a buyer before its targeted Sept. 10 closing to save their jobs and a key piece of Atlantic City's skyline...
Worker Killed In Lamar County Plant Fire KXII ...A worker has been killed in a fire Wednesday at a trailer manufacturing facility in Lamar County. News 12 has learned one employee was found dead just before 2 p.m...
Congressman Who Voted Against Minimum Wage Hike Complains He Hasn't Gotten A Raise Huffington Post ...Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) says Congress can't afford a pay cut because its last salary increase occurred six years ago...
Starbucks to Revise Policies to End Irregular Schedules for Its 130,000 Baristas New York Times ...The change comes amid a growing push to curb scheduling practices, enabled by sophisticated software, that can cause havoc in employees’ lives: giving only a few days’ notice of working hours; sending workers home early when sales are slow; and shifting hours significantly from week to week...
Berlin Bans Uber App Citing Passenger Safety BBC News ...It is the latest setback for Uber, which has faced bans and protests in cities across Europe. The Berlin authority said passengers may not be covered by insurance because they aren't traditional cabs...
Virgin America Flight Attendants Vote To Join Union Huffington Post ... The attendants would be the first Virgin America employees to be represented by a labor union...
Miscellaneous
Improving Our Railways: A Key Part of Rebuilding America manufacture this ...Virtually every wealthy nation in the world has invested in a high-speed rail network—with the striking exception of the United States. From Japan to France, even from Turkey to Russia, trains travel through the country at speeds of 150 miles per hour or above...
Where We Came From, State by State New York Times ...We charted how Americans have moved between states since 1900. See how your state has changed...
Koch brothers group to keep pressure on Common Core USA Today ...Convinced of wins during last week's elections in Tennessee, a group led by the billionaire Koch brothers has vowed to continue to spend aggressively in the state in pursuit of derailing Common Core academic standards here...
