Teamster News
Lackluster Support For de Blasio’s Horse Carriage Ban New York Post ...A majority of council members told The Post on Monday that they’re either undecided on the measure or don’t agree that the plan to offer a green-taxi permit — worth about $6,000 — in exchange for a horse-drawn carriage license is fair...
ICS Workers Vote To Join Teamsters Local 117 teamster.org ...Workers at Industrial Container Services (ICS) have voted, via an NLRB election, to join Teamsters Local 117! The vote took place on December 1st at the company's facility in Seattle. ICS is one of the largest suppliers of reusable containers in the U.S...
NetJets Slammed By Teamsters Union In Contract Fight ValueWalk ...Teamsters Local 284 in Columbus, Ohio is duking it out with fractional aircraft ownership company Netjets in a compensation and benefits contract dispute...
Former GCC General Counsel Pens Novel about Teamsters teamster.org ...“Cannons for the Cause,” a novel written by Martin R. Ganzglass, who for 40 years was General Counsel to what is today the Graphic Communications Conference of the Teamsters Union, was recently published by Peace Corps Worldwide and is available from Amazon...
Trade
TTIP: One million protestors sign petition against controversial EU and US trade deal International Business Times ...The World Development Movement (WDM) has raked in over a million online and "hard copy" signatures urging EU member states to stop the TTIP negotiations, as public concern grows over the protection of the NHS, employment rights, and a provision in the small print that would allow investors to sue governments...
Strange Bedfellows Are Blocking The McConnell-Obama Trade Deal Huffington Post ...Prior to 2011, it was rare for a Republican Congress to block government perks for major corporations. But tea party-backed members have bucked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with the lobbying group's top congressional supporters, McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), almost as a matter of routine...
Tea Party Takes Aim at Obama-Republican Accord on Trade Policy Bloomberg News ...The Tea Party is aiming to stop one of the few initiatives President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress say they both want in the coming year: more free trade...
President Obama Presses Democrats to Support Trade Deals Wall Street Journal ...Efforts in Congress to move legislation that would smooth passage of an agreement—a measure known as fast track or trade promotion authority—foundered in January after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) eschewed a bill hammered out by committee leaders in the House and Senate and supported by Mr. Obama. Since then, Republican leaders, who support the administration’s trade policy, have criticized Mr. Obama for not doing more to get support from Democratic lawmakers...
State Battles
Legislator To Introduce Right-To-Work Legislation Associated Press ...A Republican lawmaker promised Tuesday to introduce a right-to-work bill, prompting warnings from a Democratic leader that the state could see a round of protests reminiscent of the massive demonstrations against Gov. Scott Walker’s law stripping public workers of their union rights...
Florida's Minimum Wage Will Rise To $8.05 On Jan. 1 Sun Sentinel ...The state's minimum wage will increase to $8.05, up 12 cents from $7.93 in 2014. For tipped employees, the minimum wage required is at least $5.03 an hour...
Gov. Scott Walker To Blame For Budgetary Problems (opinion) Badger Herald ...We will be eight years removed from the last recession and due for another when the disastrous effects of Walker’s inane budgeting will manifest, leaving Wisconsin with nothing to absorb the shock of potential revenue shortfalls...Walker and company still have a $1.4 billion deficit to deal with...
Nikki Haley Wants To Know What Medicines You’re Taking Fits News ...Onetime Tea Party darling Nikki Haley is endorsing a plan that would require doctors to provide state government with their patients’ prescription records – part of her administration’s efforts to combat so-called “rampant prescription drug abuse” in South Carolina...
Proposal To Rig The Electoral College Triggers Backlash From Michigan Residents Think Progress ...Today, the Republican-controlled state legislature held a second hearing on a bill that would change the way the state’s 16 electoral votes are awarded, giving more to the candidate that loses the popular vote in a presidential race...
War on Workers
An Assortment of Data Shows a Resurgent U.S. Economy, but Wages Continue to Lag Reuters ...The nation’s private businesses added workers at a fairly brisk clip in November and the services sector grew strongly, suggesting a slowing global economy is having a limited impact on domestic activity. Strengthening labor market conditions, however, have yet to spur faster wage growth...
Airport Workers At 10 Airports To Join With $15 Hour Fast Food Strikers December 4 Forbes ...Airport workers at 10 major airports – including JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Seattle – have written to the CEOs of the six major US Airlines – Delta, American, JetBlue, United, Southwest and Alaska – stating that “as airport workers we have pledged to stand together with people who work in home care and fast food to fight for $15 an hour wages...
Debt Collectors Paying To Use Prosecutors’ Letterheads To Get People To Pay Consumerist ...There are programs around the country through which for-profit debt collectors can be allowed to use prosecutors’ letterhead in correspondence with consumers about debts or allegations of writing bad checks...
Middle Class Families Will Have The Hardest Time Paying Off Holiday Debt FiveThirtyEight ...When they first got married in 2008, Deacon and Kim Hayes were carried away by their holiday shopping. With two incomes from their sales and teaching jobs, the Arizona couple wasn’t worried about finances — which is how they ended up with holiday debt that took months to pay off...
Striking FairPoint Workers Go Without Paychecks for 7 Weeks NECN ...As of Dec. 2, it's been 47 days since more than 2,000 FairPoint workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont walked off the job. The striking workers haven't seen a paycheck in seven weeks and the company cut off their health care benefits at the end of Oct...
Transit workers and riders, unite! AlJazeera America ...U.S. cities are facing tight budgets in maintaining their networks of buses, trains and light rail. As with other publicly funded services, such as education, city managers and elected officials are trying to scapegoat public employees rather than fight to secure the resources needed to protect both quality public service and living-wage jobs...
Farm Worker Dies In Grain Bin Accident Dexter Daily Statesman ...A farm worker died Tuesday afternoon after being buried in a grain bin on property north of Idalia in Stoddard County...
Construction worker struck and killed on Route 422 in Chester County WPVI TV ...Police say 60-year-old Lee Boyer of Liberty, Pennsylvania was helping set cones for a lane closure when he was struck by a Jeep Liberty SUV...
Miscellaneous
End is near for red light cameras in New Jersey WPVI TV ...During the five years of the red light camera pilot program, drivers have complained bitterly about yellow lights that are so short you couldn't help but run the red...
