Today's Teamster News 01.20.11

American team seeks to reach compromise, LaHood says, by mid-year  Journal of Commerce   ...Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he expects to have an agreement to revive cross-border trucking between the U.S. and Mexico by the middle of the year...
ABF Freight System Appeals Dismissal of YRC Suit  Kansas City Business Journal   ...ABF Freight System Inc. is appealing a federal judge’s decision last month to dismiss its legal challenge of concessions negotiated between YRC Worldwide Inc. and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
U.S. Factories Buck Decline  Wall Street Journal   ...U.S. manufacturing ... has begun creating more jobs than it eliminates for the first time in more than a decade...
Berrien County board approves Teamster contract  The Herald-Palladium   ...the 32 employees represented by Teamsters Union Local 214 will not get pay raises in 2011 or 2012...
UC Berkeley: 150 Layoffs "a last resort"  Bay City News   ...The job cuts, which will mainly be administrative positions, are part of a three-year program that began in 2009 to save $75 million in university spending...
Teamsters Urge Casting Directors To Take Pilot Jobs, Assistant Issue Shelved  Deadline Hollywood   ...the standoff between casting directors and TV studios over salaries for casting assistants may be over but not in the way casting directors had hoped...
California high-speed rail sets aside $30 million to buy Union Station  Los Angeles Times  ...The historic rail hub is slated to be a major stop on the 800-mile statewide bullet train system...
Public-Worker Unions Battle U.S. Governors Over Benefits in Change of Role  Bloomberg News   ...Facing attacks from deficit-slashing officials on both ends of the political spectrum, government employees are fighting back...
Union Members Disrupt Mortgage Banksters Meeting in DC (VIDEO)  firedoglake   ... 200 of whom burst into a private meeting of mortgage bankers to protest layoffs by a homebuilding company that got a $900 million in federal funds intended for job creation...
China’s Economy Grew 10.3 Percent in 2010  New York Times   ...Buoyed by ample lending and significant state investment projects, the Chinese economy powered ahead last year...

Today's Teamster News 11.18.10

U.S. Inflation Virtually Flat  Wall Street Journal  ...underscoring the weakness in the economy...
China Protests U.S. Green Energy Probe  Wall Street Journal  ...A Chinese trade organization Wednesday said a U.S. government investigation into subsidies China provides for its renewable energy companies was baseless and would hurt China-U.S. cooperation...
Local 25 Stewards Gather for Training in Boston  IBT
Gov.-Elect Cuomo Appoints George Miranda, Greg Floyd To Transition Committees  IBT
CUE-Teamsters Expose Hidden Costs To Employees In UC's Retirement Plan  IBT  ...Lower paid workers shoulder higher share of costs
Important Update on YRCW Change of Operations  IBT   ...several hundred members will be affected...
Midterms Threaten Obama's Rail Plans  New York Times

Today's Teamster News 11/02/10

Foreign Money, National Security and the Midterm Elections Baseline Scenario ...We have effectively enfranchised foreigners in U.S. elections....

Teamsters at YRC Worldwide OK Pact Buffalo News ...Teamsters at YRC Worldwide's trucking companies have approved extending contract concessions...

Teamsters target UC Merced Examiner ...UC employees have worked without a contract for three years, the union says...

Lawmaker questions power to foreclose Wall Street Journal ...A Republican member of the House of Delegates requested Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli determine whether ... (MERS) ...violates state law because it doesn't pay a fee every time a loan changes hands ...

In Air Cargo Screening, It's Speed vs. Security, Creating a Weak Link in Security New York Times ...full screening of all air cargo would cause the system of express air delivery to come to a grinding halt...

Deficit Commission Plots to Overhaul Social Security Behind Voters' Backs Beat the Press ...this commission conspired to keep ...(Social Security and Medicare) ...outside of the election debate.

Today's Teamster News 09/16/10

Elizabeth Warren To Be Appointed to Help Create Consumer Finance Protection Bureau ABC News ...Warren ... proposed ... "a new regulatory body to protect consumers who use credit cards, home mortgages, car loans, and a host of other products..."

Wayne County Fights Fear of Unions Detroit Free Press ...Bill Black, executive director of Teamsters Joint Council No. 43, (was) ... part of the team selling Wayne County as a swell place to do business.

States cutting benefits for public-sector retirees Bloomberg News ...Since 2008, New Jersey and at least 19 other states from Wyoming to Rhode Island have rolled back pension benefits or seriously considered doing do...

UC workers protest plan to shore up pension funds Associated Press ...University of California workers (represented by the Teamsters) are protesting a plan to increase the share of their paychecks set aside for their pensions...

Concern about Personal Financial Situation Highest in Five Years Business Wire ...Seventy-five percent of workers and 61 percent of retirees are very concerned about their long-term financial future...

FedEx Profit Doubles, But It's Laying Off 1,700 Workers Associated Press ...FedEx Corp. ... strength in international shipments are driving profits, but said it will cut 1,700 jobs in an attempt to fix its money-losing U.S. trucking business.

Dozens of 9/11 responders make plea in Washington D.C. to push for Zadroga Act with Mayor Bloomberg Daily News ...Ex-paramedic Freddy Noboa traveled 1,100 miles with his 41 medications to Washington Wednesday, hoping to get Congress to finally pass a 9/11 health bill.