Teamsters
Unions to rally against Mayor de Blasio’s horse carriage ban on Monday New York Daily News ...Mayor is expected to introduce his carriage bill. But the legislation is opposed by a majority of the public and many unions, including taxi drivers, who objected Sunday...
Trade
TPP talks get back underway in Washington Japan Times ...Chief negotiators from 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative resumed negotiations in Washington after their leaders reaffirmed last month they will conclude an agreement as soon as possible...
TPP/TTIP: A Credibility Problem? (opinion) New Economic Perspectives ...'President Obama's remarks to the Business Roundtable on Trade raise alarm bells for us all, and suggest that he is still pushing his pro-1% agenda for all it is worth. These treaties also attack the capability of signators to adapt to change and tend to lock in present economic and power relationships and ensure that present and ongoing economic injustices will persist into the future...
TPP & TTIP Are Not Your Grandfather's Trade Agreements Center for Economic and Policy Research ...the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) will have almost no impact on traditional trade barriers in the form of tariffs or quotas. They are about imposing a regulatory structure on federal, state, and local governments that will be more business friendly...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Bureau of Economic Analysis ...The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that the goods and services deficit was $43.4 billion in October...
State Battles
False Claims, False Promises: Why “Right to Work” Is Wrong for Everyone Jobs With Justice ...These laws drive down wages for all workers, including non-union members, women, and people of color...
War on Workers
Corinthian Colleges Campuses In California Will Likely Be Shut Down Buzzfeed ...The state’s lawsuit … alleges that [for-profit college] Corinthian consistently misled students and falsified job placement records, unfairly leading students into tens of thousands of dollars of debt. Corinthian has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the face of legal action. Facing financial distress, Corinthian was given six months to find a buyer for all of its college campuses as part of the shutdown agreement it reached with the Department of Education in July...
Hunting Task Wabbits matter …Overnight, the platform shifted from an open-bidding market — a kind of eBay for jobs — to something much more like a temp agency…
British workers suffer biggest real-wage fall of major G20 countries The Guardian ...wages in the UK have fallen more than in Italy. The biggest fall in UK wages adjusted for inflation came in 2011, when they fell by 3.5%. In Italy, which was one of the countries hit hardest by the eurozone crisis, real pay fell by “only” 1.9%...
Tories seek to avert rift with Church of England over food bank report The Guardian …The Conservative party is seeking to avert one of its biggest rifts with the Church of England for decades as an all-party report on food banks warns that Britain is stalked by hunger caused by low pay, growing inequality, a harsh benefits sanctions regime and social breakdown…
Savar road blocked in protest over death of garments worker in accident bdnews24 ...Ashulia Police OC Sheikh Badrul Alam said a bus filled with workers of the factory ran over Mukta, killing her on the spot. Agitated workers vandalised the bus and set it ablaze...
Miscellaneous
Saudis Cut Oil Prices Again In Bid To Maintain Market Share Oil Price ...For US customers, prices for all grades will decline by between 10 cents and 90 cents...
