Teamsters
Wage Segregation Robs Women in Peak Earning Years WeNews …Some women are beginning to challenge these practices. Among them is Teamsters Local 237, the union that represented the 5,000 school safety agents in New York in the four-year lawsuit against the city...
Trade
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama's Trade Deal Huffington Post …Adding to the chorus of protest over President Obama’s push for a controversial new trade pact with Asia, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sounded off on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and accused mainstream media of not covering what could be one of the biggest trade agreements in history...
Why big trade deals never seem to work for America The Week …The boosts to America’s conglomerate national income brought about by recent free trade deals have gone overwhelmingly to the elite, while overseas competition has hollowed out a lot of the manufacturing jobs that supported the middle class. If you look at changes in global income over the last quarter-century, just about the only group that hasn’t seen any serious growth is roughly the top quarter — right where the U.S. working and middle class sits. But the global elite have made out like bandits...
State Battles
Right-to-Work legislation heads to the Assembly; public hearing set for Monday morning WITI …The Wisconsin Assembly on Monday, March 2nd will take up “Right-to-Work” legislation. This, after the Wisconsin Senate last week voted 17-15 to send Senate Bill 44 to the Assembly...
Scott Walker, GOP presidential hopeful, is poised to sign Wisconsin's right-to-work law Los Angeles Times …For Gov. Scott Walker, who ignited a spate of anti-union activity in recent years and has risen to become a national figure in the Republican Party, the new law is part of a platform that some see as strong enough to carry him to the presidential nomination...
War on Working Hoosiers Times Herald Online …House Democrats introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage in Indiana to $9 an hour. Predictably the Republican controlled House killed the measure quickly in committee. ... The state has gained a reputation as a low wage alternative for less than skilled jobs. A recent study found that of the 50 states Indiana now has one of the highest percentages of its workforce working at or below minimum wage. Almost 7 percent of all Hoosiers are minimum wage workers...
War on Workers
Corporate Borrowing Now Flows To Shareholders, Not Productive Investment: Study International Business Times …fresh research shows that in the past three decades corporations increasingly borrow simply to reward shareholders...
"Accounting Gimmicks" in Social Security The Economic Populist …The first attack on Social Security this year was with the false accusation that there was rampant fraud in the disability program, when two different reports show only 0.4% fraud in the program — far less than any other government program — and probably far less than employee theft in the private sector — and much less that's found in the defense industry...
