Teamster News
The Teamsters of the 21st Century: How Uber, Lyft and Facebook Drivers Are Organizing Fast Company ... the Teamsters are taking a bold step into the new sharing economy by organizing Uber and Lyft drivers in Los Angeles and San Diego and attempting to represent drivers for Facebook and Cisco employee shuttles...
Mayor de Blasio Unveiling Bill to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages New York Times ...“This is awful news to give a working family just before the holidays,” George Miranda, president of the Teamsters local, wrote in a statement...
Half of City Council undecided on Bill de Blasio's carriage horse ban New York Daily News ...The mayor and animal-rights activists will be pitted against carriage drivers and labor unions in a potentially brutal, drawn-out showdown over the city's iconic horse-drawn carriage industry...
De Blasio administration drafts horse-carriage bill New York Post ...Nearly one year after taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing to abolish horse-drawn carriages by producing a City Council bill that is expected to be introduced in December, according to two sources who have seen a copy of the draft legislation...
How To Help During The Holidays Press-Enterprise ...Donations from the Teamsters Joint Council 42, Teamsters Local Union 63, Metro Property Solutions in Corona, Westminster Memorial Park and Alta Dena made the giveaway possible...
Trade
U.S. Workers Should Not Be Pitted against Child Labor in Vietnam Public Citizen Global Trade Watch ...Today, the Department of Labor issued a report declaring Vietnam as one of just four countries in the world that uses both child labor and forced labor in the apparel sector...Under the TPP, U.S. businesses and workers would be forced to directly compete with Vietnamese firms on this uneven playing field...
U.S.-China Commission Describes The Multiple Tactics Of A Rogue Nation Whose Policies Have Destroyed The U.S. Economy, And The U.S. Federal Government's Failed Response Manufacturing &Technology News ...For the past decade, U.S. government officials have been pleading with China to shift its economy from investment in manufacturing capacity and exports to domestic consumption. It has asked that China stop manipulating the value of its currency. It has asked that it open its markets to U.S. service providers in health care and finance. Despite repeated promises from Chinese diplomats, it's not happening and doesn't look like it ever will...
Fifteen Years After 'Battle Of Seattle,' Labor Groups Raise Concerns About New Trade Deals KPIU ...Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the World Trade Organization meeting that brought tens of thousands of protesters to Seattle. Now labor groups are once again sounding the alarm that new trade deals being negotiated may leave workers behind...
US Report shows zero Australian economic growth from TPP Scoop ...“Since we know this most favourable outcome is unlikely, the report begs the question of why the government is continuing with negotiations which will be of no overall economic benefit to Australia...”
Why Canada Shouldn't Open Up Its Dairy Market To New Zealand Huffington Post ...NZ has been described as the "Saudi Arabia of milk," a reference to its position as the world's leading dairy exporter. On the other hand, Canada operates under supply management, matching domestic demand with domestic supply through the application of quotas. About six percent of our dairy market is open to imports that are kept out beyond that point by high tariffs. The New Zealanders obviously want to change that for their own purposes...
Rep. Rangel, will you protect our jobs and community again? (opinion) New York Amsterdam News ...Fast-tracking the TPP would put our jobs up against those in coun- tries such as Vietnam, where work- ers make a shocking $2.23 a day. It would expand Big Pharma’s monopoly protections, trading away low-cost access to medicines. It would mean transnational corpo- rations could sue the U.S. and challenge nearly any law they claim cuts into their “future expected profits.” Laws protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food on our dinner tables and our very health would be threatened...
State Battles
On First Day of Prefiling, Lant & Dugger Launch ALEC-Inspired Attacks On Workers And Voting Rights Progress Missouri ...Representative Bill Lant has already prefiled three bills attacking Missouri workers. HJR 2 and HB 47 are ALEC's so-called "right to work" proposal that has been repeatedly defeated in the legislature. HB 48 is an ALEC-inspired paycheck deception bill...
Group formed to push for Wisconsin ‘right to work’ law Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Wisconsin Right to Work will seek changes in state law to prohibit businesses and unions from requiring workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment...
State union leader reacts to right-to-work proposal WXOW.com ...Right to Work is nothing more than an attempt by corporate special interests to drive down wages and erode the middle class...
War on Workers
Fast food workers plan nationwide strike for December 4 AlJazeera America ...Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide base wage of $15 per hour and the right to form a union. Workers unanimously voted on the date for the new strike during a Nov. 25 conference call, held shortly before the second anniversary of the movement’s first strike...
Map Shows 100 Schools Along Crude Oil Train Tracks Westchester County Business Journal ...New maps from state environmental groups show there are more than 100 public and private K-12 schools within a mile of train lines used to transport crude oil through the region. Albany-based Healthy School Networks released the maps last month in partnership with a coalition of environmental and education activists...
New Report Suggests Wage Theft Of Airport Worker Salaries New York Amsterdam News ...According to a new 32BJ report titled, “Grounded Before Takeoff,” wage theft at New York area airports is just as bad as, or worse than, wage theft at other service agencies...
Construction worker killed after incident at BWI WBAL-TV ...The Maryland Transportation Authority Police are investigating an incident at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in which a construction worker was killed....
Bringing Up The Bodies: Mexico's Missing Students Draw Attention To 20,000 'Vanished' Others The Guardian ...In the days and weeks after the students went missing, investigators found a series of mass graves just a few miles from the poverty-stricken outskirts of Iguala...
Miscellaneous
Chinese investors sign up to fund I-95-Pa. Turnpike link Philadelphia Inquirer ...Chinese investors have begun signing up to spend $500,000 each to help pay for a long-awaited connection between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and I-95. In exchange, the investors hope to get permanent residency in the United States for themselves and their families...
