Teamster News
Teamsters, Safety Group Sue DOT For Not Producing Entry-Level Driver Training Rule Commercial Carrier Journal ...A coalition of highway safety and labor advocates have brought a federal lawsuit against the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for not heeding Congressional requirements to produce an entry-level driver training rule...
New York City’s Clinton Park Stables Get State Horse Council President’s Approval New York Daily News ...They’re not horsing around at the Clinton Park Stables. That was the assessment of the president of the New York State Horse Council after visiting the West Side facility Thursday to see firsthand how New York City’s carriage horses are treated. “It’s wonderful,” Marsha Himler said of the home to 76 of the iconic Central Park carriage horses...
Trade
Nothing Wrong With Chlorine-Washed Chicken, Say German Backers Of TTIP EurActiv ...Hüther has an "economically practical" recommendation. He said, "Dismantle trade barriers and, instead, label products clearly and comprehensively". In this way consumers could freely choose – with or without chlorine, he added...
TPA in the ‘Lame Duck’? World Trade Daily ...House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Ill) told WTD yesterday he sees a real possibility that Congress will vote to give President Obama Trade Promotion Authority in the post-election “lame duck” session...
State Battles
New Kansas Jobs Report Bad News For Sam Brownback, Good News For Paul Davis Kansas City Star ...According to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures Kansas created only 900 new jobs in August. For the entire year of 2014, the state has added just 7,400 jobs. That’s a puny growth rate of .5 percent. Since Brownback took office in January of 2011, the state has gained a total of 49,700 jobs. That’s a sluggish growth rate of 3.7 percent...
Moral Mondays Planting Roots In Indiana WLFI ...A Lafayette group will travel to Indianapolis to join community and faith groups in a nationwide campaign that has come to plant roots in the Hoosier state. Indiana Moral Mondays launches its statewide campaign to fight poverty and racism in Indiana this weekend...
Tens of Thousands of WI Students Face New Voting Hurdles Center for Media and Democracy ...The last-minute reinstatement of Wisconsin's voter ID restrictions could create voting problems for over 32,000 students attending state universities...
Audit: Jobs agency makes progress on bad loans by writing many off Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...The bad loans held by the state's top jobs agency have declined in value by nearly $8 million, though much of the decrease was from loans being written off rather than salvaged, a new audit shows...
Wilmington Ponders Contractor Wage Boost Delaware News Journal ...Wilmington Councilman Darius Brown wants to raise the minimum pay to $10.10 an hour for employees working at businesses contracted by the city. The move would put the city in line with New Castle County, which in March boosted the minimum wage for government workers and contractors to $10.10...
War On Workers
Koch Brothers, ALEC Threaten Campus Democracy at FSU, US Universities Dissident Voices ...Florida State University is poised to appoint former ALEC Legislator of the Year John Thrasher as new president after “sham” presidential search and Koch funding scandal...
MI County Sells Injured Mom's Home Over One Tax Bill, and Will Keep Extra $80,000 in Profit Alternet ...Deborah Calley told WITI that she paid cash for her dream home in 2010. She had thought that it would make raising two children easier while she was recovering from the traumatic car accident.But that dream was shattered when she was notified that the county was foreclosing on her home over a missed property tax payment...Court documents obtained by WITI showed that notices went out about the missed payment, but Calley said that did not see a single one of them. WITI discovered that all but one of those notices were addressed to banks, instead of the homeowner...
Republican NLRB Reform Act Would Cripple the Agency Blue Nation Review ...what it would do is ensure even more partisan gridlock...
License plate scanner networks capture movements Associated Press ...A rapidly expanding digital network that uses cameras mounted to traffic signals and police cruisers captures the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S., regardless of whether the drivers are being investigated by law enforcement...
Atlantic City Casinos: Storied Past, Grim Future The State ...Four casinos have closed this year in this New Jersey beach town and another may not be far behind. Hall, 33, was “working poor.” Now she’s just flat out desperate and poor in a city whose 12 percent jobless rate was about twice the national average even before the mass layoffs...
Uber Has Pretty Much Destroyed Regular Taxis In San Francisco Time Magazine ...Techno-optimist disrupters and angry cab drivers alike have predicted that Uber, the leading app-powered car service, would eventually put traditional yellow cabs out of business. Now, a new report shows that that Uber is hitting metered cabs hard, at least in San Francisco...
Construction Worker Killed In Crash In Interstate Work Zone In Morganton WXII ...A construction worker was killed and at least two others were injured in a crash in a work zone on a North Carolina interstate early Friday...
Miscellaneous
Home Depot Breach Put 56 Million Payment Cards At Risk Washington Post ...Home Depot announced Thursday that a breach at its U.S. and Canadian stores over a six-month period this year may have put an estimated 56 million payment cards at risk. That would make it the largest compromise of debit and credit cards in the string of cyberattacks that have hit retailers over the past year...
